As the sound and fury of election season looms, Democrats are trying to fight an unlevel playing field made worse by Citizens' United with new legislation to make Super PACs (more) transparent. But the numbers discourage. A new survey shows a majority of Americans believe we need new campaign laws, and charts on political donations and media influence - Republicans own the news cycle - back them up.

Man, what is it about Arizona and sheriffs? The new candidate for Pinal County is a neo-Nazi who has led armed volunteers and called for landmines to stop "illegals," and believes this country must be preserved as "a white European homeland." JT Ready vows, once elected, to name a street after George Lincoln Rockwell. The kicker: His hero is George Wallace, so he's running as a Democrat.

Some perspective on the state of the debt-ridden union. Numbers from the Treasury Department.