Numbers of the day: 

Only 0.26% of the Americans contributes to political campaign and only 0.05% max their $2500 limit…. 0.000063% of Americans gives 80% of the Super PACs money. More on the Rachel Maddow show

Super rich alienate nearly all Americans from campaign donation

Rachel Maddow relays the findings of a new study showing that vast minority of Americans contribute to political campaigns and an even tinier minority contributes five figures or more- and why would an average American bother to participate in a system where such a small number wield such disproportionate power?