Instead of Campaign Finance Reform, which would separate money from politics and move the U.S. towards a real democracy, as one would expect, the ever-cynical Idiocracy took things in the extreme opposite direction i.e. now anything goes. Yet the latest example of widely accepted moral degradation.
And to think these figures are just for starters, as the campaigning is not even really underway yet. Obama alone expects to raise $1 billion. But don't count Mitt Romney out, as he made his fortune in Private Equity, and knows a thing or two about fundraising...Lest they forget though, their puppet masters expect (the same) big things from Robama or Obamney regardless which of these Harvard-bred clones wins in November...
FYI, here is the historical trend for total Presidential campaign spending (in $ millions) i.e. slightly above the inflation rate (doubling every four years since 2000)...and this only shows through 2008. In this new era of the 'Super PAC', this chart will be going parabolic:
