According to OpenSecrets.org, as of November 27, 2007 the ten Republican presidential candidates and eight Democratic presidential candidates have spent a total of $265,961,360 campaigning. In total, they have raised or otherwise acquired a total of $419,741,095.
Read: There is over 400 million dollars tied up in the presidential election of 2008. That's money spent, or to be spent, convincing all of us that any one candidate is better than the others and thus more deserving of our votes.
And yet, the election is not decided by any of us. We'd like to think that it is, those of us who make an effort to vote. In most election years, the popular vote at least coincides with the electoral college decision. But the fact remains that the 2008 election, like those before it, will be decided by the electoral college.
So here are 18 politicians who have spent over 260 million dollars on marketing a product to consumers that we're not able to purchase. That's an awful lot of money.
My question for the candidates is, what else can 260 million dollars buy - other than irrelevant publicity and marketing? How about putting your share of that money into actually making the changes you promise you will make after you become president?
There is over 400 million dollars sitting in a pile about to be spent on printing promises outlining all of the exciting future changes each candidate promises. And now - what's getting done now? How much money are these candidates spending now on improving the lives of citizens, and where is that money coming from?
(And why is the mainstream media forcing me to spend hours researching on my own to find these answers when they are being paid to tell me how each candidate prefers their coffee?)
If there aren't any problems now that can be improved by a fraction of that 400 million dollars, if nobody in this country is worthy enough of a piece of that 400 million until after the election - then why do we even need a new president?
Ha.
My question for the candidates is, what else can 260 million dollars buy - other than irrelevant publicity and marketing? How about putting your share of that money into actually making the changes you promise you will make after you become president?
There is over 400 million dollars sitting in a pile about to be spent on printing promises outlining all of the exciting future changes each candidate promises. And now - what's getting done now? How much money are these candidates spending now on improving the lives of citizens, and where is that money coming from?
(And why is the mainstream media forcing me to spend hours researching on my own to find these answers when they are being paid to tell me how each candidate prefers their coffee?)
If there aren't any problems now that can be improved by a fraction of that 400 million dollars, if nobody in this country is worthy enough of a piece of that 400 million until after the election - then why do we even need a new president?
Ha.
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