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Originally Posted by FeelTheLove
So you are saying these candidates were forced to partcipate?
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Well, in a practical sense, the answer is yes. If they elect to stay away as a group, that would be different. But if one or two just don't participate, they will be out of the running.
Overall the whole "running for two years" and spending hundreds of millions of dollars to get through the primaries is nonsense. Each candidate should be given the same resources and then forced to win because the meaning of their message is more compelling. As it is, the actual message is becoming secondary to money collecting statistics, and their ability to spend money with the networks. I hear the free speech amendment argument and conclude it does not apply. The political campaign rules should be devised to benefit the American people, not special interests and corporations. The American people would be better off with candidates forced to run on a strict, bare bones budget where the message is the focal point, not the media. Jim