At a time when it’s become a cliché to say that Occupy Wall Street has changed the nation’s political conversation – drawing long overdue attention to the struggles of the 99 per cent – electoral politics and the 2012 presidential election have become almost exclusively defined by the one per cent. Or, to be more precise, the .0000063 per cent. Those are the 196 individual donors who have provided nearly 80 per cent of the money raised by in 2011 by giving $100,000 or more each.
