{"id":158,"date":"2008-11-03T07:42:36","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T14:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2008-11-03T08:18:40","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T15:18:40","slug":"campaign-spending-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"Campaign Spending Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report out today Barack Obama and John McCain, together have raised almost $1,000,000,000, and the &#8220;candidates&#8221; have spent $8 per vote during the campaign so far.<\/p>\n<p>What is misleading (what else is new) is that Barack Obama has spent OVER $5 per vote to reach potential voters, while John McCain has spent UNDER $3 per vote. As Obama has out raised and spent almost twice as much as John McCain, those figures are no surprise.<\/p>\n<p>John McCain is campaigning with public funds, thus limiting what he could raise privately.<br \/>\nBarack Obama after PROMISING to campaign with public funds, renaged (as usual) because he found that the special interests backing him had deep pockets and he could &#8220;BUY&#8221; the vote!<\/p>\n<p>So much for government by the people. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report out today Barack Obama and John McCain, together have raised almost $1,000,000,000, and the &#8220;candidates&#8221; have spent $8 per vote during the campaign so far. What is misleading (what else is new) is that Barack Obama has spent OVER $5 per vote to reach potential voters, while John McCain has spent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nationalpolitics","category-nationwide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}