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Originally posted by Lenny2
Of course its more complex than that. There are lots of people that contributed to the president's record breaking campaign fund (over 100 million dollars) and all of them were promised tax cuts if he was elected.
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This was for the Rep. nomination, not the actual election!
Bush and the extreme right
In the estimation of the media pundits, Bush has locked up the Republican nomination a year before the convention. More than half the party's senators, governors and congressmen have endorsed him. Some 200 corporate and business backers, in a group called the Pioneers, have agreed to raise $100,000 apiece from friends and associates, and half have already done so. Last month Bush raised more than $4 million at a single fundraiser in Washington, DC, attended by nearly every lobbyist in town.
Bush's enormous lead is not a byproduct of broad personal or political support?he is little known to the public and played no significant role in Republican Party politics before his election as governor of Texas in 1994. As the New York Times observed, ?the financial frenzy ... is all the more striking because Mr. Bush is not particularly well-known nationally and his positions on issues are largely a mystery.?