Reply #6: campaign finance reform [View All]

[justinb3]

Did Clark come out for publicly financed campaigns?
Did Clark come out for IRV?

Dean's done both. Granted, you can't do #1 unilaterally, since you'd get clobbered. That's obvious, so don't go trolling in those waters ;)

Given those two issues alone, Dean's the stronger candidate.

It'll be *really* interesting to find out the demographics of Clark's donors. I'd be willing to bet Dean's average contribution $$ that Clark's average is > Deans, and that the names on Clark's list are old-time political insiders.

http://www.opensecrets.org/presidential/donordems.asp

Odd that so many Clark people have a visceral dislike for Dean, but most of them seem to feel okay about voting for Graham, who authored most of the Patriot act. Why is that?

-justinb