Locked in the nation’s most expensive US Senate race, Senator Scott Brown and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren both revealed shrinking campaign coffers late Thursday night, with about $3.7 million left for the Republican candidate and $3.5 million left for the Democrat.
The latest reports covered fund-raising between Oct. 1 and Oct. 17. Warren, who has outraised Brown in every reporting period, raised $2.5 million in the first half of October. Brown, who is also among the nation’s leading fund-raisers, collected $1.6 million over that period.
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Why would a shrinking campaign money pot for either of these cndidates be a surprise? They are each wasting so much money over ads that are mainly about non-issues like Lizzy's being a squaw or not and Brown's voting for an ex-Harvard dean to be a Supreme Court justice. All this commentary on a shrinking campaign bankroll for each does is to emphasize the idiocy and waste of money, time and resources that the American political electoral system amounts to. A billion or more is absurd when the nation's economy is in the doldrums, yet Obama and Brown and Rove and Lizzy and Romney just keep their hands out as if they are the most deserving charities in the nation. IT IS A WASTE and should be redeveloped into a system that is more like the one used in European nations - very short, somewhat expensive, and sensible campaigns.
Maybe they'll run out of money and give us a few days of peace and quiet before the election. (Yeah, it's a dream)