It just amazes me how much money goes into campaign spending, even just running for the nomination. This just seems crazy to me.
It really hit home when Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize the other day, and speculation about "maybe he'll run for President now" were dismissed for, among other reasons, the fact that he'd be "way behind in fund raising".
Now why would he need so much money? Everyone already knows who he is. What do they spend that money on? Maybe it's just because I live in CT, where nobody really bothers to do any hometown campaigining that I don't see what the big expense is.
Sure, I can see spending a few days around each big city in a state, doing big public functions, and that could cost a bit, but hundreds of millions of dollars?? Something is wrong when you need to have hundreds of millions of dollars behind you before you can be considered a viable candidate for President.
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