THE ANTI-LOBBYIST. To Ruth Marcus‘s excellent, beyond the rhetoric column on the Democratic presidential candidates’ records with regard to campaign finance reform and lobbying — which concludes that “Obama leads the pack” on this issue — I have only this to add:

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That’s the front of Barack Obama‘s downtown Des Moines headquarters. Every one of his nearly 30 offices across the state has a similar sign. Obama has, writes Marcus, “co-sponsored bills to overhaul the presidential public financing system and public financing of Senate campaigns.” I expect we’re going to be hearing a lot more on this issue.

–Garance Franke-Ruta

Garance Franke-Ruta is a former senior editor at the Prospect. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She was a 2006 recipient of a fellowship at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.