:cornut: I voted yesterday(Texas early voting) at our county court house. Line was some what long but went very quickly as it takes very little time for Texans to hit the Rep****can straight(Rep****can State for close to 50yrs now) ticket button and 'Ka Ching' I'm outa here. Jason
I wouldn't think about where the money goes, but where it comes from. Individuals and organisations don't 'invest' big money in campaigns without expecting some return - and that may be (doesn't have to be) a profoundly undemocratic effect. In this instance the US is a shining beacon to quite a few other countries of what not to do or to let happen - in my country there is the first shoots of a programme to fund political parties from state funds (you're welcome to call it 'socialist political funding' if you want...) in proportion to previous election results, precisely to avoid this issue of what a campaign contribution buys you. Or did that sound too much like Ross Perot? Oh, and we complain because although political parties are severely limited here on what they can spend on TV advertising, they do get two or three 5-minute prime time slots across all (terrestrial) TV channels and those slots are enough to trigger the same complaints here...... :mad2: