1. Barack Obama; 2. Nancy Pelosi;

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30. "massive amounts of money are donated to campaigns and PACs" -- assuming all

donations are about bribing Democrats to adopt right-wing policies? Where is the evidence for that?

Donations give one access, not automatic influence. How would that even work? How would anyone do what all donors want? Otherwise there would be plenty of evidence that Obama, Biden, other Democrats change their positions.

Al Franken:

"Campaign contributions don't buy votes, what they buy is access. That's why lobbyists write campaign checks. They're not bribes. They're grease. ... They may have donated to you not in order to buy your support going forward, but because you've been supporting their good cause all along. And more often, you're not meeting with them because of a check they wrote, but rather because you're on the same team. You're strategizing together how to move the ball forward, and trading useful information about how to achieve a shared goal."