Vilsack Ends Campaign

Friday, February 23, 2007  -  reddit

Governor Tom Vilsack is announcing right now that he is ending his 2008 campaign for President. Vilsack's primary reason was the vast amount of money required to run in modern days and that he simply cannot compete with the other super stars in the field. Let me restate that -- he can't even get enough money to stay afloat, much less compete.

I find it incredibly pathetic that a person has to end their campaign just because they can't raise tens of millions of dollars just to get some TV air time. There is something deeply wrong with the system we have when you have to be connected at the hip to extremely wealthy people juts get going.

Is this really a democracy, or is it democracy light where only the rich get to run now?

tags: Tom Vilsack, 2008 Elections, Democrats