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Originally posted by pan6467
God I hate when I agree with Onetime.... I feel so so ..... conservative. LOL.... I tease cause I love ya, Onetime.
I still say the best way for campaign reform is to force all stations that have FCC licsences to give not just equal time but FREE time.
Each federal and gubenatorial candidate gets 3 - 30 second commercials every other half hour or hour.
As for magazines and newspapers each candidate gets FREE equal space and the ads either run next to each other in WEEKLIES (Kerry's on page 32, then Bush is on page 33 and if Badnarik and Nader are on all 50 state ballots then Kerry and Bush each get 1/2 of page 32 and Bad. and Nader each get 1/2 of page 33) or in DAILIES the ads run every othe day Kerry/Badnarik get page 4 on M/W/F = Bush/ Nader get page 4 T/TH/SA and Sunday the ads are shared like in a weekly.
That cuts down probably the most expensive part of campaigning.
There is precendence for this as by FCC law stations have to have so much time devoted to public service AND they have to offer equal time to candidates.
The rules are now if a candidate cannot afford equal time "AW WELL, FUCK THE DEADBEAT, HE CAN'T PAY FOR THE SPACE"
But this will never happen the media makes too much money on campaign ads.
That's how I would do it. See if it works and how well.
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Yeah sometimes it burns doesn't it? ;-)
I thought that you didn't agree with regard to the 527 groups though? Our last discussion on this topic ended with your acceptance of them in an "anything to defeat Bush" kind of way.
Not trying to stir things up here, I'm just curious. Did you change your mind on the groups? If so I'd love to hear what shifted the stance. If you still feel the same that's fine but sometimes it's reassuring to hear of people overcoming the partisanship to focus on issues that go beyond Republican and Democrat (or Independent, Green, whatever).
Personally, I think these groups lead to more partisanship and send us down the wrong path in addition to allowing too much influence on the process from large contributors.