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How to fix campaign financing forever for $50

A radical proposal by two Yale professors goes far beyond any reform envisaged by Feingold or McCain.
By Farhad Manjoo

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  • Monday, February 5, 2007 05:58 AM

    The real problem

    I read that in the last British election the cost of the national campaign of ALL parties combined was less than the cost of a single senate race in the US.

    Election campaignes are no longer about informing the public about the issues involved and what the candidates stand for. It is more like the Coke and Pepsi war and the hundreds of millions spent on advertising there.

    —Paul

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