Public funding is not an issue because it is very little of the money needed.
Sad fact is that in most cases, the one with the most money wins.
The average voter relies on political adds and propaganda because they are to lazy to search for them self.
a fact the one with the most money wins, that statement didn’t live up to a fact in the last election.
Clinton raised 700 mil while trump raised 400mil neither took public funding because if so they would have to limit what they spend in each state. here’s some of those limits.
Presidential candidates also must agree to:
Public funding for major party presidential nominees in the general election takes the form of a grant of $20 million plus the COLA. To be eligible to receive public funds, the presidential nominee of a major party must agree to limit spending to the amount of the grant and may not accept private contributions for the campaign. Candidates may spend an additional $50,000 from their own personal funds, which does not count against the expenditure limit. In 1976, each major party nominee received $21.8 million. By 2008 (the last year a major party candidate chose to accept a general election grant), that amount had grown to $84.1 million. (In 2016, the general election grant would have been $96.14 million.)
Minor party candidates and new party candidates may become eligible for partial public funding of their general election campaigns. A minor party candidate is the nominee of a party whose candidate received between five and 25 percent of the total popular vote in the preceding presidential election. The amount of public funding to which a minor party candidate is entitled is based on the ratio of the party's popular vote in the preceding presidential election to the average popular vote of the two major party candidates in that election. A new party candidate receives partial public funding after the election if he or she receives five percent or more of the vote. The entitlement is based on the ratio of the new party candidate's popular vote in the current election to the average popular vote of the two major party candidates in the election.
there are a few rules that hurt a third party chance at being pres.
Got to have at least 5,000 dollars contributors in at least 20 states, get at least 5% of the popular vote.
But the biggest hurdle isn’t much about money but it is the 15% mark to enter the national debate stage.
candidates face extra-high hurdles to being taken seriously by voters. They have to spend heavily in many states to simply get on the ballot, and the media rarely gives them any attention.
That’s why there’s only one number that matters: 15 percent. That’s the
threshold set by the Commission on Presidential Debates. To participate in the debates, candidates need “support of at least 15 percent of the national electorate as determined by five selected national public opinion polling organizations, using the average of those organizations' most recently publicly reported results at the time of the determination.”
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