Huge amounts of money have been raised by the ’08 presidential hopefuls, according to reports being released today. Mitt Romney – who is running at three percent in the latest Galllup – alone brought in 23 million! [Who gives him all that money with those numbers?-ed. Maybe it’s a special award for good hair.]
But I have a question: does this matter? Or, more specifically, does this matter very much? We live in an era of all-news-internet-news-cable-news-more-and-more-news-yadda-yadda-until-we’re-saturated. Don’t we all get enough of Rudy-Hillary-Barack-McCain-and now Fred Thompson just because they are there? Do these people actually need to pay for publicity? Enough already. [But what about the minor candidates? Don’t they need a leg up?-ed Ron Paul has as many internet supporters as L. Ron Hubbard.]
So maybe fundraising is not as important as it’s cracked up to be – except to the media, of course. It gives them something to write about.
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