Corporations and affluent individuals and organizations get more purchase in the system, whether it's with Bill Clinton or with any other politician, because they can spend large amounts of money, directly and indirectly, and campaigns are expensive. In the case of corporations, the ability to relocate, and the tax revenue and jobs associated with domestic facilities, provide additional leverage points.
Want to level the playing field? Limit all spending, across the board, whether on issue ads, or electioneering or anything else, to an amount that any normal private individual can afford. That would make things much more equal, though not completely equal, but would also make campaigns difficult to fund, given the expense of television and other ads. So there would also need to be a component of free airtime and/or public funding.
That would also take some of the sting out of Citizens United, since corporations and other organizations would be limited to modest expenditures.
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