Public support for elections

[Frances Venn <kenvenn@adnc.com>]

Public support for campaigns is the only way the playing field can be leveled. To get legislation passed to bring it about would require a "revolution" in both the candidate's (particulaly the incumbant's) and in taxpayer's thinking. I'd like more information about how public financing has worked in other countries.

I don't see how campaign speeches can be called "free speech' when they cost so much money. What business would continue pouring more and more money into a marketing campaign when the results showed fewer and fewer buyers interested in the product? Yet in politics, ammasing a larger war chest of funds to scare off other possible candidates in your own party has become necessary to even secure a nomination, much less win the election campaign.Results? smaller voter turnout.