They provide public financing of campaigns to candidates who collect a threshold level of small contributions and then agree to raise no other private money and to abide by strict spending limits. Bolder approaches would require television and radio stations to air campaign advertising free of charge as a condition for maintaining their broadcast licenses, or would perhaps bar campaign advertising from the airwaves altogether. The duration of political campaigns might be reduced, as in Britain. Above all, strict limits must be placed on the amounts of money that can be spent by candidates and any and all of their supporters. Democrats must cease their internecine squabbling over the election and wake up to what's happening around them.
Genuine reform is in the air .
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