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Originally posted by Nad Adam
Is it legal for an american presidential candidate to recive finacial support from outside of the country? I'll put in 50€ on anyone who has even a chance of beating Bush.
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dont think you can do that.
but you can try to donate to a PAC (i dont know if this is legal, but i'm thinking this is)
back to the thread.
i really dont give a damn who wins the primary, as long as they can beat gwb in the general elections. right now, i'm a howard dean supporter. this is the primary season, which means that the candidates have to appeal to the extremists in the party (mostly extremists vote in primaries).
i think dean will tone down his platform once the primary season is over (that's considering he wins the primary
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also, as you mentioned, he has the media backing him. this could be very very useful in the states that could go either way. media could scrutinize on what a pathetic job bush is doing is domestic and international affairs and that should push the states to vote democrat.
a lot of voters are retrospective and i'm assuming that they didnt have the time of their lives under gwb, which is another thing going for the dem's. unless bush gets extremely lucky and hit the jackpot on the economy, a lot of unemployed and dissatisfied people are gonna switch camps.
the war in iraq.
looks like we'll be there for a while now (years?) and we're losing soldiers at the rate of 1/day and the bombings and the sabotages continue. this is not what the american people want. if the death rate of US soldiers in iraq continue, the public might rethink their support for the war.
any, that's my rant.