Mallard Fillmore Suzanne Fields Arianna Huffington Tony Snow Michael Barone Michael Medved Ch. It's campaign finance reform again. Running for president is an extremely expensive proposition. Getting your message to the voters means buying television spots.
Fund raising is bound to be a big part of the job for any candidate.
In 1974, a thousand bucks was a lot of money. It isn't anymore. Now money and news and polls are joined at the hip. Pollsters ask voters whom of a series of people they are only dimly aware of they would vote for 18 months or 2 years hence. Sen. John McCain is running on this theme.