[willvarfar]

Bugs me to bits. I'm very glad I live in a much 'cleaner' country i.e. Sweden.

Transparency could strip off lobbying. If we know who gets what money, and we know how people vote, a bit of clustering etc ought reveal patterns...

What's needed is something gimmicky that gets popular appeal and covered on mainstream media for fifteen minute fame...

E.g. an iphone app that you point at the live news on your TV and it OCRs the senator's name and queries opensecrets.org or something bigger and better and tells you how much money they got, from whom, and how this correlates with their voting record etc.

Something that makes politicians accepting money very counterproductive.

[tracker1]

Don't underestimate the complacency of the public.. Most of this information (campaign funding information) is publicly available in the US as well... it's just that most of the population doesn't care... they're more worried about one of those damned (insert other party here) getting into office.