From: utzoo!decvax!genradbo!stuart
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: buying an election
Article-I.D.: genradbo.550
Posted: Mon Sep 27 11:23:57 1982
Received: Thu Sep 30 09:16:55 1982

If the candidate you mention was able to "buy" the election,
it was only because the voters were willing to "sell" their votes.
No one has to decide their votes like they decide which soft drink
to buy. Your dismay at the influence which money has
in deciding an election is misplaced.  It is not the spender who
is to be frowned upon, but those who look no farther than TV ads
to learn about a candidate, or whose political convictions are so
weak as to be influenced by the mere sight of a politician's
name plastered on someone's car or lawn or billboard.

  Stuart Hollander  decvax!genradbolton!stuart