The year's biggest spenders — and biggest winners [in the 2006 Midterm Elections] — were the oil and tobacco industries. In almost every contest, candidates and issues with the most money trumped the side with less, even if the losers raised bags full." —LATimes

In this election, the average cost of a House seat (in campaign cash) was almost a million dollars ($960,000 to be more exact). The average cost of a Senate seat was $7.8 million. [...A]nd what is remarkable is not which top contributors give to which party, but how many of the top contributors (representing Wall Street and Big Business) give generously to both parties. You see, they are all on the same cruise, headed for the same destination.

That destination includes perserving American supremacy in the world, which allows us to live our profligate and completely unsustanable lifestyles here long enough to get through another business and election cycle... all at the direct expense of the poorer people in the world. [...T]he manner to which we have become accustomed is paid for by a steady flow of value drained from the peripheral regions and sucked into this giant, wasteful, dangerous, and dirty technomass that will one day leave our children stranded on a toxic scrap heap wondering how we let this happen."

—Huffington Post