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Dylan Ratigan, host of MSNBC’s The Dylan Ratigan Show and author of the soon to be released Greedy Bastards, exposes the political process in this upcoming 2012 Presidential election.

STORY: Power Shift! Corporate Greed In Politics Is Rotting Away Every Day 

In a piece written for the Huffington Post, Ratigan list his ten facts about the political process that show why we need to end the auction by getting money out of politics.

1) The Candidate With More Money Wins: From the 2008 elections: “In 93 percent of House of Representatives races and 94 percent of Senate races that had been decided by mid-day Nov. 5, 2008 the candidate who spent the most money ended up winning.”

2) Congress’s Main Job Is to Raise Money, Not Govern “Here is a general rule of thumb for US House incumbents. They need to raise roughly $10,000 a week started the day they are elected.”

3) 48 Percent Say Most Members of Congress Are Corrupt “A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters believe that most members of Congress are corrupt. Just 28% disagree, and another 24% are not sure.”

4) Voters Think That Cash is King “A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Thursday indicates that 86 percent of the public thinks elected officials in the nation’s capital are mostly influenced by the pressure they receive from campaign contributors.”

5) No Trust in Elected Officials According to Pew Research less than 25% of people believe they can trust our government at all, particularly our elected officials.

For the complete list, click over to the HuffPost.