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Steve Forbes, Ross Perot, Ron Lauder, Michael Huffington: Millionaire political novices running self-financed campaigns tend to stir up more chuckles than consternation - as long as they lose. But ex-Goldman Sachs honcho Jon Corzine put $34 million of his own money into all the right pockets. He greased New Jersey Democrat "party-builders" and got out the vote instead of blowing it all on advertising (though he did plenty of that too - $34 million allows you a certain flexibility). He broke all records for Senate campaign spending, and the main event is yet to come...
...into phones and cursing sporadically; a wall of television screens flashed campaign coverage from every imaginable channel--except FOX--they preferred "Party of Five" over McCain. Huddled together, we stared at this splendor of technology and manpower. Alter flew off to another interview, and Franklin spied his heroine, Arianna Huffington while I discovered my hometown hero, the Boston Globe columnist, Mike Barnicle. Granted, he resigned from the Globe after they discovered his tendency to "fabrication," but he's still the best thing the Globe ever had. With his arms folded across his chest, he seemed mildly pleased to hear...
...Jenn tried to crash the Gore party, but the loud music and cheering inside was just an illusion. Only a small number of people had been screened by the secret service and invited to his contrived victory celebration. Huffington accosted us on the way out, so we listened to her strange and lilting accent while she towered above us all like a veritable Amazon warrior. She handed us a pamphlet for her latest cause, "OverthrowtheGov.com," and posed for a photo. We were once again unstoppable, pretending that our Harvard ID and driver's license would work as a press pass...
Forbes' real contribution to this year's campaign has been to show that lucrative spending cannot develop a constituency. In the Iowa straw poll last August--although no delegates were at stake--Forbes spent $160 per vote. He ranks close to Ross Perot and Michael Huffington among wealthy men willing to spare no expense for their political ambitions...
...loud, from a lush rented banquet hall, or wide, from the face in a slick campaign ad on national television. It is a megaphone for ideas, and also a corruptor of democracy, because when money it is given in large enough quantities ? and yes, Messrs. Forbes and Perot and Huffington, it must be given to be truly effective ? it wins elections. It buys votes, because it is votes. It signals support, so it attracts support, and thus it is self-fulfilling. And because no candidate can win without it, nearly every candidate promises nearly anything to get more...