An American citizen cannot be elected to Congress or the White House without carrying out a multi-million dollar campaign; to get the money, he or she has to either be very rich to begin with, or solicit funds from contributors which will yield political dividends afterwards, Gevorg Mirzayan, a senior fellow at the Moscow-based Institute for US and Canadian Studies, was quoted by RIA Novosti as saying.
Comment: In other words, corporations (which are legally mandated to return a profit on investments from shareholders) don't donate money, they invest it in candidates, with the expectation that they will get a monetary return on that investment.
Comment: The whole US election system is rigged from start to finish.