Okay seriously, with all of the complaining about our elected officials and their prospective replacements, we often forget that the voters are no great bargain either. What?!? Yes. I said it.

Voters lament the fact that money repeatedly buys elections all across our country, which often keeps the best candidates out of office and favors the best financed instead. The problem is that the biggest reason for this isn’t the money coming in, but actually how the money has to be spent in order to reach the voters. Instead of attending candidate forums, debates, and other events where the under-funded candidates can reach the voters on equal footing, voters are reached primarily through media buys, which cost the very most of all campaign expenditures.