ABSTRACT
Senator Collins's concern, which the author seeks to document in this book, is that current campaign-finance practices breed political inequality from economic inequality, sapping the vitality, support, and legitimacy from US democracy. It should be obvious that the elimination of all restrictions would fail to address the problem of campaign finance in the United States. Since the key problem with the current system of financing elections is the inequality in resources needed to purchase contact with voters, one way to address the problem is to provide alternative ways for disadvantaged candidates to reach voters. A full discussion of the problems and proposed solutions is useful to go over a few to highlight the larger context of campaign-finance activity. Some electoral procedures need to be changed to improve the health of elections. The nomination process for presidential candidates is particularly problematic and exacerbates the problems of campaign finance.
