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similarly, so-called inner circle political advisers are often valued more highly for their ability to bring in the bucks than for their ability to contribute to the quality of the official’s service.
It all comes down to the proposition that there is no way, under our present method of campaign financing, for an election between an incumbent and a challenge to be fair. It is heavily weighted on the side of the person in office. He or she has a built-in but graftfree ability to purchase political power in a very literal sense of the word.
What can be done about it?
Public financing of presidential campaigns seems to be working reasonably well. Perhaps a similar system, funded by income tax check-offs, could be adopted for other federal and state elections. If this were done, the candidates would start their campaigns more evenly matched. Granted, the possibility of such a change being enacted is small since those who would enact it have a vested interest in preserving the present system.
But something should be done.
As things now stand, rising young Tom Jeffersons or Patrick Henrys could be - and may well have been - bludgeoned into obscurity by better financed but far less able opponents.
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