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- Flash: Sen. Denny quits prez race, cites cost of buying superdelegates
  Posted by srpr from Scholarsandrogues
  For the moment, consider me as two-term Sen. Denny. That makes me more a professional fundraiser than a politician. I need money to acquire influence while in office in case I run for president. That's because superdelegates cost money.
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- I am data; politicians micro-target me to get elected
  Posted by VincebusEruptum from Scholarsandrogues
  To our presidential candidates, I am not a human being: I am a set of data points, one of about 168 million sets of data points collected by both the Democratic and Republican national committees. Presidential candidates will base their direct-mail, push-poll, robo-call and volunteers-knocking-on-my-door messages on computerized analyses of me as data. I will be micro-targeted by candidates’ campaign organizations for the sole purpose of producing a vote...
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- Needed: a constitutional mandate to detect lies of candidates
  Posted by srpr from Scholarsandrogues
  If we want better-qualified (and honest) presidential candidates, let’s amend Article II, Section 2, of the U.S. Constitution to require candidates for president to pass a lie-detector examination.
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- If politicians can be bought, the public must do the buying
  Posted by srpr from Scholarsandrogues
  If you and I — the electoral “we” — share dismay, disgust and despair over the overt and covert roles of corporate and special-interest money in politics, then it’s time buy back our government and our democracy. It’s time to outbid the corpo-kleptocracy for the largesse and lawmaking of our politicians.
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- Obama launches 2008 White House bid
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  Interesting that Obama is focusing on money in politics ... we'll see if he's serious about it: "Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can't tackle the big problems that demand solutions. And that's what we have to change first."
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- Gregoire wants public financing of Washington Court races
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  This is a terrific idea - great way to experiment with public finance: In the state budget she proposed Tuesday, Gregoire included a $4.4 million pilot program to make public financing available to Supreme Court and Court of Appeals candidates. Candidates would have to raise a qualifying amount on their own and agree to follow a clean campaign code
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- Polls Lagging, Lamont Gives Campaign $2M
  Posted by Jeff from CBS News
  Lamont has given $8 million to his campaign. Lamont's personal wealth has been estimated at between $90 million and $300 million, according to his campaign. Kind of sad that the Senate is so expensive to win these days. Government for the rich. It would be great to get rid of Lieberman but I wish it was more grassroots and less Ned's bank.
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Damianmann comments on:
Obama launches 2008 White House bid

I think he may face a lot of what Dean had to deal with. It’s not going to be easy. They’re gonna pile on this guy.

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2:13 pm 1/17/07
Jon comments on:
Gregoire wants public financing of Washington Court races

Could be a great step on the long road to get big money out of politics. Cheers to Gregoire for knowing how to move the ball downfield.

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9:44 pm 12/20/06

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