I know it's old news now, but I never really thought about it too hard. The McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill raised the hard money cap to $2,000. My God. How could anyone possibly think that a limit that high is good for democracy? How many people can afford to contribute anywhere near that? The people who are affected by the limit are people for whom that is pocket change. I do well, but I can't imagine contributing more than a tenth of that to a campaign, even one I really believed in. $2,000... How many Americans live on less than that for a month? That number tells you immediately that campaign finance is deeply corrupted just by how it excludes more than 95% of Americans from even having a chance to influence the process.