re: The McCutcheon decision, money as speech, and the end of corruption

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This is why character does in fact matter.

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Meh.

I mean, it does. But, the reality is, we really have pretty much no way of knowing if public personalities are of high character. We don't know any of them. That's why I don't get very animated when some guy screws around. Sure, I could vote him out, but hell, the guy who replaces him could be 10x worse and I'd have no way of knowing.

I vote based on precisely two things.
1)What they say they stand for
AND
2)How their voting pattern comports with #1.

To me, voting based on anything else is voting out of emotion because again, we really don't know shite about them.

And, if you think about it, from the voter's perspective, whether he voted the way YOU want him to due to his actual beliefs or due to bribery is wholly irrelevant.