This weekend Howard Dean declared “independence from special interests.” What does that mean? It means that by not taking public financing Dean, will be able to spend as much as he wants campaigning.
I’m not necessarily criticizing this decision; it’s probably a smart campaign move. But it is another amusing example of the way campaigns spin things. Somehow a decision to spend as much money as it takes is “independence from special interests.”
Speaking of campaign funding, Atrios reproduces a chart breaking down the money given to each candidate by donor amount. All of the candidates have received at least 75% of their funding from $1,000+ donors except Braun, Clark, Dean, and Kucinich.