The issue of campaign financing was raised once again during Monday's debate between the Democrats, so we thought we'd check the numbers and see how much the candidates are getting and from whom. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
The issue is important, and the article provides a little data to illuminate the topic. It fails to address the biggest question, the need for voter-owned publicly financed elections to remove the necessity for candidates whoring after big donors in order to be competitive in the election. Another shortcoming is that it falls into the pettiness of counting dollars without bringing in the relative platform and the history if each candidate on issues that affect the military-industrial media complex, the insurance industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the health care industry, and the corporate oligopolistic control of the media under the blessing of various administrations.
