Former US President Jimmy Carter: I couldn't afford to run a campaign today

[kpete]

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/former-us-president-jimmy-carter-i-couldnt-afford-run-campaign-today-1498630.

If he could do it all over again, and he was a younger man, Jimmy Carter still wouldn't run to become US president today. He couldn't afford to, he told reporters.

"I couldn't possibly do it because I have very little money," Carter said at a Pennsylvania press conference. "Now it takes $200m if you want any chance to get the Democratic or Republican nomination."

Carter , now 90, said he raised absolutely no money for his runs against Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan because he relied on public financing of campaigns, reports the Times-Tribune. Barack Obama was the first president not to accept public funds in 2008 because he could raise more.

[cali]

1. odd. in 1975, my dad, a very early Carter supporter

through a big fund raiser for Carter at the Waveny House:


http://www.newcanaan.info/content/9492/9224/675/default.aspx

raised quite a bit for him. Also everyone in my immediate family gave the legal limit to his campaign

[onehandle]

2. The laws have changed so much since then, even before 1%ers United.

Probably the funds raised went directly to the party and 'friends of' organizations, rather than directly to the candidate.