I thought our economy was horrible

Remember too, the job only pays $200+ K per year. Imagine why people spends 10's of millions for a 200K job. Someone expects a mighty big pay back for all that campaign cash.

The money the democrats are raising is coming from corporate American (which is really pissing republicans off, because these people usually give money to republicans), and we all know that they have alot of money to give. I was listeing to one of talk shows today, and they say that Obama, and Clinton have already received around $200 million, and the majority of them have not reached their max contribution amount. Thus, they figure that they could raise another $150 million from these people alone. By contrast McCain has struggled to raise the $100 million he has now, and the majority of them have maxed out what they can give to him. Thus, putting him in a very bad situation, he will have to rely on Bush to get money, but that could alienate some of the voters.

They have a lot of friends who think it very important that one of them win in order to further the liberal agenda to strip us of our rights and make us more dependent on the government.

To be able to gain more power over the ordinary citizen is worth any amount to these people because the lust for power is their primary driving force.

hey gew,

Hillary went millions into debt running her campaign, and is now negotiating with Obama to help pay for those debts, to include the loan of 11 million to her own campaign.....after PA primaries and the reports that hse had brought in 10 million dollars on the net that she was 20 million in debt with only 10 in the bank.

Obama has outraised her 3 to 1 at least....and part of it is he has done the bulk of his fundraising from the internet, and lovely thing called PayPal, and you know the thing is if a bunch of people give 5 or 10 dollars think how that is going to add up if 1 million people donate just 5.00

Obama has a HUGE following, and there was no cap on internet giving, the fundraisers that Bill and Hillary were so well known for that once the check was written the well dried up, it wasn't until late in the campaign around the time of PA primaries that Hillary really started tapping into online payments.....where people could donate more than once, or donate as much as they wanted.

That's how they got so much money,

people felt better about giving the money because they could do so in small amounts as they could afford.

Mooch

I agree. I hear that Obama puts his people in Motel 6 type places and Hillary puts hers in decent hotels. That is a lot of money. The way people are complaining that they have no money today, those figures make the think about what our country could do with it. It is wasted on ads,etc.

That must mean McCain used $11 in one month! The economy is horrible, actually it's a bit beyond horrible, but apparently there are enough not so wealthy people who could afford to give Obama and Clinton a few bucks here and there and a smaller number of rich fat-cats who have funded McCain's campaign. No matter what, we definitely need campaign finance because political campaigns shouldn't be about who can raise the most money from any source.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24238167/

"In March, his (McCain's) operating expenses were $5 million, his smallest monthly expense so far this year.

McCain's expenses ranged from $758,000 for air charters to $151.55 to a Los Angeles florist. The campaign reported a debt of $707,000, much of it outstanding American Express billings. McCain had his most fundraising success in California and Florida, each of which yielded more than $1 million."
Annie

Well there are several places that the money could come from. When you file taxes, you have the option of donating a dollar for the presidential campaign fund and I am sure that many do. There are also donation from individuals and corporations but I think that there is some limit to how much.

I agree! I have been thinking about this a lot lately. People complain about the economy, but they never think about all the money spent on these campaigns. Imagine what we could do with that money. They should have to answer for that. Americans who give to political must be doing good. No mor complaining about the economy. We have money. It is just misplaced as usual.