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Old 2008-02-10, 15:16   Link #166
Ledgem
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Northeast USA
Age: 38
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Originally Posted by Terrestrial Dream View Post
I have to ask something, the Republican wants lower taxes however they are going to increase the military spending (could have misheard about this). So how is that going to work?
Here's how it works: it gets them elected, people forget they said it, and then taxes are either raised or government debt increases massively.

I thought a very interesting statistic that you don't see published very often is how the campaigns are managed, monetarily. You hear about how there are millions of dollars involved, but how are the finances being managed?

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Originally Posted by (H)elix1 (231155) from slashdot.org
Looks like people contributed a lot of money. The finances are worth mentioning for all the major Republican candidates. One of the things that surprised me as I drilled down [opensecrets.org] into the numbers, is for all of the candidates, most of the funding was done at the individual level rather than PAC money. I was not expecting that.

Romney, Mitt
Q4 raised: $26,928,433
Q4 spent: $33,713,503
Total raised: $88,499,686
Total spent: $86,068,239
Cash: $2,431,447
Debt: $35,350,000

McCain, John
Q4 raised: $9,714,246
Q4 spent: $10,254,446
Total raised: $41,102,178
Total spent: $38,153,750
Cash: $2,948,428
Debt: $4,516,030

Paul, Ron
Q4 raised: $19,873,329
Q4 spent: $17,478,711
Total raised: $28,101,264
Total spent: $20,262,084
Cash: $7,839,421
Debt: $0

Huckabee, Mike
Q4 raised: $6,637,063
Q4 spent: $5,391,918
Total raised: $8,986,532
Total spent: $7,090,087
Cash: $1,896,446
Debt: $97,676

By way of comparison, Giuliani, who recently dropped out of the race...

Total Receipts: $60,929,240
Total Spent: $48,152,428
Cash on Hand: $12,776,812
Debts: $1,166,509

Wow... just wow... That sort of spending puts drunken sailors to shame.
In case you missed it, the original site shows those figures with a miniature bar graph, and also shows the Democratic numbers.. I know that campaign spending isn't necessarily indicative of how they'll be trying to determine spending when they're in office, but I was thoroughly depressed to see that only Ron Paul had a debt of $0 while other candidates had wracked up even millions in debt.

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Kind of off topic but I heard Hilary's speech on live few minutes ago, and well she just said that the US made the internet, which it seems to me is kinda of ignorant statement coming from a someone running for presidential nominees and a Yale graduate.
Maybe I'm ignorant as well, but how is that false? The internet concept originally started out as a military project, and was later applied to other areas. The internet as it is today was made by people all over the globe, of course, but if you're discussing the origins of the internet then I don't see how she was wrong.

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Originally Posted by Kyuusai
a part of me hopes Hillary is elected (assuming that her health care plan can't get enough support in congress, as is likely)
It can't be - you're against universal healthcare? Either that or Clinton has changed her stance on healthcare. Looks like I have another reason to clash with you - what do you have against universal healthcare?
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