if you were running for the senate you'd need at least staen 17 17 a day. >> so it's unsurprising that most candidates end up collecting the vast majority of their money from wealthy donors rather than from smaller spending average donors. we looked at the large donor and small donor break downs in a targeted sample of 25 races where the partisan maker for the district doesn't sort of already incline the race in favor of one party's nominee over the other. what we found is the candidates who are really doing well in these races are overwhelmingly drawing their funds from large donors. in some the top candidates got more than 80% of their contributions from large donors and 47 of these 50 got almost 9.5 out of $10. the limited role for average voters in funding complains hasampaigns has limited function. my colleague adam will be joining us later in the program to describe some of these effects. one of our partners, dan smith is also here today to tell us about some of the specific candidates who have been affected by the current role of money in our politics and even given current limi