Mark Melman about public sentiment regarding current campaign finance scandals. Melman is the CEO of the Melman Group, a political polling and consulting firm for democrats. He has been conducting focus groups to learn how people feel about politics and money, and why. He says that people used to have confidence in the own member of congress - while feeling the system was broken. Now it turns out a large majority feel even their own member of congress is very affected by special interest contributions.
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