Reason Why Elections Are Less Democratic

Reason Why Elections Are Less Democratic

The reason why elections are less democratic is because some people say that
money is taking away from our well known democracy, but in other instances we
have the greatest democracy compared to other countries of our vast magnitude.

Throughout the nineteenth century campaigns were ran and geared toward the party.
Instead of voting for a person you were voting for an individual party either
federalist or democratic-republican. Today, in the twentieth century, we vote
for the candidate and their true character or what they have to offer us. To
run a successful campaign now-a-days you need money, a good pollster, well
organized debate, direct mail, and positive publicity.

“Money is the mother's milk of politics” if you don't have you aren't going to
go any where. Campaign money is received part from federal and part from
private donors in a presidential election, but congressional elections are all
private donors. Most of the money for a congressional leader comes from
individual donors, but they also have political action committees (interest
groups) that raise money for their campaign. Presidential candidates also raise
money from individual donors because the federal government will match them
dollar for dollar. Reform has been successful in the fact that it minimizes
some fat cat buying his or her own pet politician, but it also takes away from
the parties, provides an advantage to wealthy challengers, gives advantages to
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Reason Why Elections Are Less Democratic

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