Yeah, it shows that the election costs giant dollars and Kerry is using his head and knows that he can ill afford to give Bush 5 more weeks lead in money raising on him, since Bush started with a much larger war chest to begin with AND didn't have to spend his in primaries, like Kerry did.
Fed Election Committee rules state that as soon as a candidate accepts the nomination of his party he is bound to raise no more privat money and for this he gets to spend roughly $75 million tax payer contributed dollars. Same rules apply to the Republicans but since their convention is later, it gives them a substantial time advantage in raising money. What the FEC should do, not that they've asked my advice <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />, is to stop all major candidates party fund raising when the first one is nominated, or wait until both are nominated to start the fund raising freeze. The latter is probably more sensible.
I hate Bush and detest Kerry, but it is a fact that most of the "campaign" rules including the free speech infringements that Bush signed in the Campaign Finance Reform Act (or whatever its official title was) favor the incumbents. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure our why. The incumbents design and pass the bills, they are not going to pass something if they can possibly help it, that helps their political opponents, current or otherwise.
