Reply #21: Where is your parrallel criticism for Clinton backing Romanoff, Lincoln and Coakley?

[karynnj]

In addition, you are reaching when you claim that it was Romanoff's vow not to take money from corporations and Wall Street. Romanoff clearly was at a huge disadvantage in terms of money. This might be an example where the real problem is that there is still far too much big money in elections - and it is far easier for an incumbent to raise money. However, going forward - as Bennett is the candidate, the "Wall Street" bit is over played in terms of where Bennett got his money.

If you care to look at open secrets, only a small portion of Bennett's money comes from PACs - and little of that is from Wall Street.

The fact is that only 17% of Bennett's money is from PACs, and only $40,000 of that came from the "securities and investment" industries. (It looks like a fifth of PAC money is from "leadership PACs - which is money from Democrats who have leadership PACs to help other Democrats. ) http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00030608&cycle=2010 and http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=2010&cid=N00030608&type=I