> With QV, the donor can put his money to work in exactly the way he wants. That might leave PACs with much less money to spend. We can hope. I expect though t

> With QV, the donor can put his money to work in exactly the way he wants. That might leave PACs with much less money to spend. We can hope. I expect though that in general having your dollars have - by design - a quadratically decreasing power in vote purchasing is quickly going to give you less bang for your buck than spending it on manipulating the perceptions of others. There'll be some cross over position in value, and people will spend $x on votes and the rest on manipulating/persuading others which is what PACs are for.