Timeline for What arguments can be given in favour of financial barriers for participation in elections or electoral debates?
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| Aug 4, 2015 at 10:20 | vote | accept | gerrit | ||
| Dec 18, 2012 at 19:28 | comment | added | user4012 | @JNK - Raising funds is a skill (of a campaign, or a candidate). That money doesn't just magically appear out of thin air, and usually dries up for bad candidates *cough* McCain *cough* in general elections | |
| Dec 18, 2012 at 19:13 | comment | added | JNK | There's a serious logical fallacy here. In a PRIMARY all the candidates are competing for the same money pool - republican or democratic donors. In the general election there's little internal competition, the republican donors will give money to the republican candidate and vice versa. The billion dollars spent wasn't contributions to the individual candidates, a lot of that was party money as well. | |
| Dec 18, 2012 at 16:03 | comment | added | gerrit | If you're talking about US presidential elections, indeed. Probably as well for congress and for senators. The situation is different for e.g. parliamentary elections in European countries, where proportional representation can get grassroots political parties into parliament where they then have a platform without needing money to get access to media. | |
| Dec 18, 2012 at 15:52 | comment | added | user4012 | @gerrit - I would be hard pressed to find a candidate who won a general election without raising big dough. It's not right or wrong, it just is :) | |
| Dec 18, 2012 at 15:49 | comment | added | gerrit | Right, that's actually quite pragmatic and independent on the moral judgement if it's right that the ability to raise funds is a necessary requirement to win elections. I'll wait a bit before accepting to give others a chance to answer. | |
| Dec 18, 2012 at 15:46 | vote | accept | gerrit | ||
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| Dec 18, 2012 at 15:42 | comment | added | user4012 | </the_architect> | |
| Dec 18, 2012 at 15:42 | history | answered | user4012 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |