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| | The Color of Money -- Campaign Contributions, Race, Ethnicity, and Neighborhood |
 | | Campaign money -- not votes -- is now the currency of our democracy, determining who runs for office, who wins, and who has the ear of elected officials. |
 | | Click here to look up a map of where Democratic candidate John Kerry and President George W. Bush are raising their campaign cash in the nation's top contributing metropolitan areas. |
 | | Under the Clean Money, Clean Elections approach, already law in five states--Arizona, Maine, North Carolina, New Mexico, and Vermont--candidates who agree to abide by strict spending limits and to raise no private money qualify for a grant of public funds for their campaigns. |
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