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Article #1352Re: How Dubya Got To Be President
From: Bill Lindemann
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 02:44
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 02:44
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Robin* wrote: > To quote the origonal post, "... it is only fitting that the candidates with > the most cash should win". > > This inplies Bill Gates will be a lock if he ever decides to run for public > office. > > If Ross Perot gets stomped, and Steve Forbes doesn't even make it to the > primaries, then obviously money has little to with winning an election. The original statement failed to include any observations about the peculiar dynamics of third-party candidacy in America. If it had done so, it would have been quite undeniably true. Certainly it is true that, for major-party candidates (Democrat & Republican) money talks. And I think it is still valid in general if one adds to the numbers the non-monetary clout of the major party organization, which of course itself is bought with copious "soft money" donations. If Perot or Forbes had spent more money than Bush, plus an additional increment to offset the lack of name recognition or the support of a vast party organization, they probably would have won instead. Money has *everything* to do with getting elected. -Bill
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