In addition to being extremely expensive, and we have to put up with the stupidities that the candidates repeat, it's really being decided elsewhere who will sit in the presidential seat.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy.
These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.
It's important not to limit the amount of their own money that candidates can spend, but to give other people access to enough money to run competitive races.
It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down.
Democracy, if it meant what our forefathers said, that would be great, but unfortunately it's been corrupted by this funding and funding of campaigns. There's a much better way to do it. There could be a small amount of money given by every taxpayer to be dedicated to candidates.
This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!
We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren't there.
This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding.