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		dantheman on Dec 16, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Larry Lessig’s Long Walk Money is normally, needed by challengers - incumbents have a lot of advantageous including notoriety. If anything the US should make laws to enhance the challengers, not solidify incumbents.

rtpg on Dec 16, 2014 [–]

just by the way, you get your funding refunded at about 5% of the vote, so it's not like the challengers have little access to the funding.

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