Group: Money in Politics

Money definitely affects politics. Politics is in fact run by money and the bigger the quantity of money in your possession the better the chances of you being elected. Almost every candidate out there puts some sort of advertisement about themselves to try and get people's votes. So far candidates running in the primaries have spent from $30-120 million dollars on advertisements and other things for their campaign and will continue to spend more till election day in November of 2008 comes around. The ones who have more money can advertise more via television or some other forms of advertising. Money should be allowed to be spent to advertise yourself but overall it is a bad way to really even the playing field and get people to choose the candidate on what matters: their opinions, stands, beliefs, etc. The money allowed to be spent should be limited to a lower and more reasonable amount than 100-200 million and more like $50 million which is easier for other candidates to compete with and therefore they can focus more on the issues and less on who was seen more on TV ads.