Two and a half million dollars is a lot of money if you're running in any Congressional district, to have on hand, to spend.

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Always in campaign fundraising a candidate wants an upward trajectory and both candidates seem to show that right now.

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It's a seemingly legitimate way of pointing out hypocrisy. Is there really hypocrisy there? Probably, but in more cases, probably not.

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They can see which industries are giving to candidates, individual contributions to candidates.

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The enforcement arms of Congress have been missing in action for quite some time and it's unclear whether adding more rules for them not to enforce would do any good.

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It's created a class of super-lobbyists. They can get out of the lobby and into the inner sanctums of the Capitol.

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You shouldn't feel sorry for them is the bottom line. When you walk out that door, even if you can't walk right back in, it multiplies your pay significantly.

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That's the sort of money you have to keep the sort of day-to-day expenses of an inactive campaign going. Your staff, your rent, office space, things like that, if you need to spend money on that.

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