good.is From buying airtime to printing those indispensable bumper stickers, running for president is expensive. The candidates need to stick up whoever they can for cash. In this original GOOD Video we look at where the presidential hopefuls are getting their money, and the record-breaking totals. Animation & Design by Chris Weller Directed by Max Joseph www.chimponachain.com www.christopherweller.com

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25 Responses to “GOOD: Campaign Fundraising”

1. annie2062003 on June 20th, 2009 9:47 pm

   god how do they fundraise need massive school fundraising ideas anyone got any???

2. ASKaPHYSICIST on June 22nd, 2009 6:11 am

   that’s capitalism for you

3. agbook2007 on June 23rd, 2009 8:17 am

   Very informative…entertainning…and YES, just plain GOOD.

   Again, excellent choice of the music.

   Interesting facts there, with those two zip codes in New York being part of the top of all three candidates. 10021 AND 10022…interesting.

4. davis1337 on June 24th, 2009 3:53 pm

   awesome vid. but all of these GOOD video’s are just educative, creative and just GOOD.

5. AdDigit on June 28th, 2009 12:07 am

   Broadcaster licensees are trustees of the public’s airwaves. They are given the right to use those airwaves by the public in the first place.

   Legally all that needs to happen is the public puts in a FCC regulation that broadcasters have to give fair time.

6. Dominatrix319 on June 28th, 2009 1:38 am

   Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could put that money to use for better issues: education, alzhimers research, homelessness, cancer research, spinal-injury research, you name it….
   What a waste!

7. herdofthis on June 29th, 2009 12:48 am

   THats alot of money for hungry people. I Hope they’re worth it.

8. minizer999 on July 2nd, 2009 9:15 am

   love it or fix it..awesome

9. ChaoticConfusion on July 3rd, 2009 9:45 pm

   The western bandit theme in this was great thanks for the upload

10. ianislavus on July 4th, 2009 8:40 pm

    First you’re donating campaign from your own packets… Then you make a choice like Bush… so comments… you’re doomed!!!

11. Masakione on July 6th, 2009 10:15 pm

    awesome animation… wanna do this too

12. jjohnnystipes on July 8th, 2009 9:52 am

    These candidates are depicted as bandits(robbers). I think the people they got the money from gave it willingly. COntributors I think is what they are called. I like you, here’s my money.The contributors might be stupid but they were not robbed.

13. nevous8 on July 8th, 2009 11:32 am

    Good point, I always wondered that… Drop out + surplus or more stored away money = …. ?

14. curlyheads on July 8th, 2009 8:13 pm

    or you could do what Hillary Clinton did.

15. WatanukiProductions on July 9th, 2009 10:12 pm

    Yeah cause everyone knows Coke is better we don’t need a vote.

    Though the future of Coke is more important than our next president.

16. WatanukiProductions on July 11th, 2009 12:02 pm

    Run For President
    Collect Donations
    Drop out of Race
    ????
    Profit

17. HempForPresident on July 12th, 2009 2:34 am

    (continued from below V) source code owned by the gov’t and looked over by programmers and international election watchers, in an open process viewable by any citizen online or on C-Span. Votes would be Instant Run-off Votes. IRV means you choose 4 or 5 candidates in order of preference. If your first choice doesn’t win enough percent to make the cut, your vote “runs off” to the next one down. So on and so forth until the final candidate is chosen.

18. HempForPresident on July 13th, 2009 10:00 am

    I sort of see your point, but I would be in favor of this: Everyone in America donates $5 per year to a fund held by the government. At the end of 4 years, $5 times 150 million tax payers = $750 million per year times 4 years = $3 Billion dollars.

    Think that’s enough? We could use that money to buy EQUAL air time for all the candidates running. We would vote in a Federally indentical process over all the states. Electronic voting with source code owned by the gov’t and (continued ^)

19. jbokuden on July 13th, 2009 1:34 pm

    1 billion is alot but it is still less than the 1.6 billion annual advertising budget of Coca-Cola. I honestly wouldn’t feel bad if we spent more on deciding the next president than we do and deciding Coke vs Pepsi.

20. farfegnugens on July 16th, 2009 9:46 pm

    dude, is it me or does everyone suck?

21. AdDigit on July 17th, 2009 1:36 am

    The real problem is Television ads. That’s the major costs are advertising. But, if you think about its over public airways in the first place. It would make more sense to take it in public domain. Since, television company’s are given the right to broadcast on the public’s airways.

22. chossef on July 17th, 2009 3:16 pm

    think about how the president is gonna pay back his debt with a job that pays 200 000$ a year…
    like it or not when big corporations give you millions for your campaign… it’s not because they like you… they are buying you…

23. 2themachine on July 20th, 2009 10:19 am

    Liberals are heretics to the American cause.

24. adrastea99 on July 21st, 2009 12:41 pm

    Vote Obama!

25. ModernModr on July 24th, 2009 8:48 pm

    shit, Obama has quite a debt to repay. I hope he didn’t get any of those millions from anti-pot organizations…