Political Fundraising?

Looks like it is getting much worse.

For thier re-election campaigns, Clinton had attended 5 fundraisers at this point in his campaign, "W" 7. Barack Obama is at 37!

Will we soon have a regent assigned to be President while the current POTUS is on the campaign trail raising money?

Maybe time to adopt British methods where you only get 8 weeks to campaign?

How about a national primary after 8 weeks and then 8 more weeks to pick the President.

Same with local and state elections.

Clinton and Bush didn't have an army of what is it now 14? people running against them.

I agree on the 8 weeks to campaign....

Yes... In this case a whole corporation winked into existence, donated a Million dollars to Romney, and then blinked out of existence.... in 4 months...

What a surprise!?!?!

Secret Corporate Money Powers Pro-Romney Super PAC

WASHINGTON -- A corporation that contributed $1 million to a political action committee supporting the presidential bid of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has been dissolved just four months after being formed. The company's fold, and its relationship to the Romney campaign, marks the new contours of the continued breakdown in campaign finance disclosure in the wake of the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.

The company, W Spann LLC, donated to Restore Our Future PAC on April 28 and cancelled its certificate of incorporation on July 12, according to Delaware state records obtained by NBC's Michael Isikoff.

"People can set up a corporation give millions to a Super PAC and shut it down before they have to file annual reports," allowing donors to remain anonymous, Brett Kappel, counsel at Arent Fox and an expert in campaign finance, told HuffPost. "This was a natural extension of what the Supreme Court allowed in Citizens United."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/0 ... 18051.html

Barack: Boy, I really would like to take a look at this unemployment problem but I have to get out and earn some money!

One billion dollars by November 2012! 58 mllion dollars a month!

Wow... That didn't have ANYTHING to do with "political fundraising", did it.... But it sure was a good rant... You should save it for a thread where it has some relevance somehow....

It makes me laugh thiunking of the fools that would contribute money to the Titanic rofllol

CriticalBill wrote: It makes me laugh thiunking of the fools that would contribute money to the Titanic rofllol

That is what I am hoping, President Obama outspends his Republican opponents by 500 million dollars and still loses.

Our elections have become more about money than about ideas. The fact that the direction our government is going doesn't change no matter who we elect should show us that. Instead we are happy when "our" (ha!) guy wins and spend 4-8 years excusing, ignoring and even approving their actions. Will we ever wake up or have we been too distracted by the game show atmosphere?