Crowd-Funded Presidential Campaign Possible?

[GTaudiophile]

Fact: Voting for R or D is not a vote at all. You're voting for the establishment and to keep the puppets of the 1% elite in power.

Fact: The voting populous is pissed and wants more options.

Idea: Could the right Independent person ... a modern-day 'Ron Paul' or 'Ross Perot' ... successfully bypass the traditional system and raise over $1 Billion through crowd-funding and put on a successful counter-campaign and get her- or himself on the ballot in all 50 states? Would this be a way for all of us to say a big F-U to the establishment?

 

[Subyman]

They do crowd funding already. You can easily donate to your party or candidate through their websites. I think the power of something like Kickstarter could come in for battleground cities on smaller issues like banning marijuana dispensaries and such.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Pretty much this is what happened with Howard Dean.

 

[First]

lol. What do you think crowdfunding is? It already exists and is transferred to R's and D's in huge numbers.

 

[KK]

I think both R and D should be classified as a terroristic groups and should be prosecuted to the fullest. They have both fucked up this country much more than any other group has.

 

[Fern]

Fact: Voting for R or D is not a vote at all. You're voting for the establishment and to keep the puppets of the 1% elite in power.

Fact: The voting populous is pissed and wants more options.

Idea: Could the right Independent person ... a modern-day 'Ron Paul' or 'Ross Perot' ... successfully bypass the traditional system and raise over $1 Billion through crowd-funding and put on a successful counter-campaign and get her- or himself on the ballot in all 50 states? Would this be a way for all of us to say a big F-U to the establishment?

Well, there are an awful lot of campaign contribution laws and requirements. Accordingly, I doubt one could use Crowdfunding to raise campaign contributions.

Of course internet 'ads' can be used to solicit campaign contributions, but IMO that's different. I guess it depends upon one's definition of "Crowdfunding".

Fern

 

[Blanky]

Current laws make this very difficult. There is too much money in the government. I really hope something can be done to reverse what is an extremely injurious trend for democracy in this country.

 

[unokitty]

TED Talk Transcript

... Well, here are the numbers from 2010: .26 percent of America gave 200 dollars or more to any federal candidate, .05 percent gave the maximum amount to any federal candidate, .01 percent -- the one percent of the one percent -- gave 10,000 dollars or more to federal candidates, and in this election cycle, my favorite statistic is .000042 percent — for those of you doing the numbers, you know that's 132 Americans — gave 60 percent of the Super PAC money spent in the cycle we have just seen ending. So I'm just a lawyer, I look at this range of numbers, and I say it's fair for me to say it's .05 percent who are our relevant funders in America.

Now, what can we say about this democracy in USA-land?

Professor Lessig's point is that US elections are funded through a legally corrupt process...

I believe him.

Watch his TED talk. Read his books and essays, you'll believe him too...

Uno

 

[Fanatical Meat]

You might be able to start a super pac but I believe campaign contribution limits & tracking would make this difficult. I'd like to see a constitutional amendment brought up by the states to limit money in politics.