Great info site. I don't understand why the US can't simply take one of the many pages from Canada's book on this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_political_financing_in_...

We don't even do away with Private funding and we're not without our problems up here, but one thing is for certain, we have much quicker, and cheaper elections.

they are more boring to follow too :/ (except the last one, nobody expected the NPD to grab the opposition)

Correlation is not causation, and nothing on that site is evidence that money is winning the election. It is not surprising that the most popular politicians (winners) would also be the ones to get the most money, from people who like the official and others trying to buy influence.

According to the following article, large increases in campaign spending have a small impact on the poll results:

http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/01/17/how-much-does-campaig...

Also, where is the $30 billion coming from? It isn't a lot of money, but Congress doesn't exactly have a lot of money to throw around.