Can somebody explain to me, why it should cost so much to run a campaign? For what? It seems to me in this day and age of the Internet, you can get your message out without having to spend a ton of money.
Radio and TV airtime, staff, travel. It’s one thing to campaign in one state, but a nationwide schedule is very expensive.
Don’t fight it, just accept it. Herman needs our cash or we’re going to have a choice between Romney and Obama.
The Dems will use Wall Street, mormon racism, and Romneycare to ruin Mitt. He is the most vulnerable candidate in the GOP race, and he’s the one they want and will likely get.
RE: It seems to me in this day and age of the Internet, you can get your message out without having to spend a ton of money.
The IRONY of our age is we have faster communication, better information dissemination, great technology to receive knowledge, YET, we have just as many if not MORE ignorant people.
Why? BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE JUST PLAIN LAZY. They’d rather be spoonfed information.
We have better eduational facilities here in the USA but our kids aren’t any better educated than those in say, China.
They don’t want to go through the rigours of thinking about the ramifications of say, the 9-9-9 plan. Instead, they prefer the 30 second sound byte.
*THAT* is why it is very expensive to run a campaign.
IT COSTS MORE to pay for an effective 30 second (even if deceptive) sound byte.
It never fails to amaze me how many mailings we get from candidates which go straight to the trash. That has to cost a small fortune for a national mailing. That alone could probably be eliminated.
With the internet, I think Cain can run a campaign that will end up changing the basics of campaigning. As another said, it’s amazing what he’s accomplished with minimal funding.
There are idiots like my sister out there who only know what they see on TV. Ads are enormously expensive plus bumper stickers and yard signs. The things Cain needs for name recognition.
Or, if you’re a Democrat, you need a few mil to pay the homeless, crooks, and illegals to vote. You also have to pay off organizations like Acorn to flood the voter rolls with fake registrations. The list goes on.
Television. You have to respond to negative ads, for one, and to create story for yourself as well. “Top of the mind” awareness for the voting booth, because a lot of voters, even in the primaries, know little about the candidates but rely of “what they’ve heard” from television ads.