While you may be able to point to one or two anomalies, we need more than that. If the MPA has the ear of 70% of congress, that's still enough to have their way

While you may be able to point to one or two anomalies, we need more than that. If the MPA has the ear of 70% of congress, that's still enough to have their way on legislation, regardless of a few fringe elements. As far as I can tell, there's not a large trend that this is changing currently. The candidate that spends the most still wins 70-80% of the time: https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/winning-vs-spending https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/winning-vs-sp... The cost of running a winning campaign has steadily increased as well: https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/election-trends https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/election-tren... Those trends, to me, do not paint a compelling story that things are different now.