If you're a programmer and want to do something politically powerful, write a tool that takes FEC bulk data and dereferences the chains of PAC-to-PAC donations used to obfuscate giving, so we can see clearly which corporations donated to which candidate.
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I took a quick look over lunch. Number of entities N degrees from Google PAC (parties excluded): N=1: 61 N=2: 1805 N=3: 3639 N=4: 4589 ... N=9+: 4741
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Candidates ultimately supported: GRASSLEY, CHARLES E SENATOR; DELAURO FOR CONGRESS, ROSA; JONES, WALTER; CRAIG, ANGIE; KIHUEN, RUBEN; WELDER, BRENT; RASKIN, JAMIE; MOONEY, ALEXANDER XAVIER; INHOFE, JAMES M; MULVANEY, JOHN MICHAEL 'MICK'; RICE, KATHLEEN; NADLER, JERRY
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You may want to ask NICAR-L (https://www.ire.org/resource-center/listservs/subscribe-nicar-l/ …), a listserv full of data journalists, many of whom have been working with these datasets.
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