badgenome on 27 February 2012
| Rath said: @Badgenome. With public funding campaigns would mostly have to flourish on the candidate and the candidates positions. Currently elections are mostly decided by how many millions of dollars you can spend on ads attacking your rivals. |
I suppose you could do a lot of good things by abridging freedom, but it's rarely worth it.
I don't think that's accurate, though. Money tends to follow popularity rather than the other way around, and uber rich candidates like Meg Whitman and Steve Forbes have had no luck buying their way to electoral victory.
