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Notice that Dubbaya raised the most money ever when he was campaigning. Now everyone knows that politicians are just puppets who take kickbacks from different groups of people in order to get votes. The Democrats are backed by environmentalists and unions, republicans are backed by the oil companies.
just a side note, Bush's personal campaign raised the exact same amount of money as Gore. There is a system in place whereby the two major parties' presidential candidates receive federal funding, however in exchange they both agree to raise only a certain amount of money, thus resulting in both candidates having the exact same amount of money. This system has been in place since (i think) the kennedy/nixon election (give or take a couple years) and every major presidential candidate since then has agreed to participate. Now as for independent ads and expenditures (which are technically unlimited) I don't know. More pacs may have run ads or other whatnot for bush than gore, but that is a completely different issue.