2016 Candidates Are Really, Really, Ridiculously Rich
Economic diversity = 1 and .01 percenters.
When Scott Walker dropped out of the 2016 GOP presidential race today, the factors that led to his bowing out were similar to that of the previous dropout, Rick Perry: low ratings and a well-endowed Super PAC that nonetheless was useless in the face of the candidates’ own financially faltering campaigns.
While the imbalance between Super PAC and campaign coffers has been one thread in this campaign, there is another story of gross imbalance–that of the wealth of presidential candidates compared to the wealth of Americans at large.
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