The Big Money In Political Campaigns

             The Big Money In Political Campaigns

To win elections, politicians need to raise money. To get votes, they need to raise big money – a lot of money. In the 2010 Senate elections, the average winning candidate received 1.8 million votes and raised $9.8 million. Candidates who raised 33 percent less money received 33 percent fewer votes, and lost


If a candidate called up voters himself, he’d need to convince 144 people every hour to vote for him (on average over his six-year term). That means he could spare just 25 seconds talking to each voter. (And this assumes he never spends time governing; he’d actually have far less.)


But modern political campaigns speak to voters less directly, with TV ads and billboards. To afford their campaigns, senators need to raise $782 an hour. That sounds like a lot, but a single big donor gives $1,837 on average. Most Americans can’t afford that, but politicians ask lobbyists and the wealthy. Because each big donor gives so much, he or she is worth 2.4 hours of a candidate’s time – over 300 times more than a voter.


Would a busy senator rather talk with 300 voters or one big donor? When it comes time to do his job, and pass legislation, whose interests will he represent?

America has become a country of the rich,for the rich, by the rich !!! The 1 percent rule everything.


The rich (the one percent) own the media, TV networks, radio, news papers, mailing houses,printing company operations, Social internet networks, Cable networks.


The rich give money to politicians, Presidential candidates, Senatorial candidates, Congressional candidates, Govenors, Mayors, State and local represenatives.


Then the politicians give the money back when they buy adds on and in the media. the money stays in the circle of the RICH.