Americans know that you get what you pay for, whether you’re talking about nice clothes, decent cars — or presidential candidates! That’s why we give so damn much money to them: millions upon millions of dollars, most them handed over to losers who will never get within a mile of the Oval Office. We know that this wasted cash is the price of good governance. But
one state isn’t holding up its end of the deal. While the good citizens of New York and Connecticut are paying upwards of $2 a head to fund the 2008 election insanity, the inhabitants of North Dakota (aka “Baja Manitoba”) have only ponied up
9 cents apiece to our various beloved candidates! What lies behind this miserly attitude? The
New York Times investigates, and we summarize, after the jump.
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Hillary Clinton's campaign has acknowledged that it is $20 million in debt. Who cares? That's about a fifth of the money she and Bill have made in the last seven years, and Barack will help ease some of it when she quits. She can put a few more weeks on her AmEx if she wants to, and she might as well at this point: Let her run out the rest of the primaries, everyone will decide, and the only thing pushing her out will be her old nemesis, Math, finally set-in-stone. And then she'll sue and take it to the convention where Al Gore will become president, again. [Washington Post]
