I always wondered how much my vote really counts. After all, I have never donated a dollar to an election campaign; so when a pharmacutical company donates 20 million dollars who is the one that is really placing the vote.

In the 2004 elections, spending by Big Business accounted for a whopping $1.22 billion, more than 23 times the contributions working families made through their unions, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

http://www.aflcio.org/issues/politics/bigbusiness.cfm

"NPR's Peter Overby reports for the Public Radio Collaboration project Whose Democracy Is It?"

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1491981

My Narrative on Voting

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I think the argument is short and effective. If your intent was to get people interested in the subject to do some more research then you did a good job

-Gary

This is a good lead in to your topic, but as I am sure you are doing, you should probably finish out your narrative this week with more explanation and ideas. There is not much to remix here, but this seems to be a very interesting story and I am interested to see your narrative progress.

-James