If they prove successful, you'll certainly see more candidates doing it. But it's not something that anyone can do. A lot of it is time sensitive, depending on world events and national events, and you need an enemy, the way Republicans use Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton.
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There's certainly a lack of attention to detail and poor accounting practices here, but these sorts of things are common in political accounts.Kent Cooper
You're talking about standard operating procedure here in Washington suddenly being turned on its head and a key operator signing a plea agreement that he may have been involved in some kind of public corruption.
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There's a lot of groundwork that these leadership PACs can do that can be instantly translated into presidential support. You're making contacts throughout the country. When you announce a candidacy, those people already know about you.
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It's probably an indicator of someone who's organized, someone who's dedicated, who's investing the time and energy early on.
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That's a huge expense. Most of these pre-presidential-type candidates will do this and use their leadership PACs as much as possible.
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When you look at a corporate leader or a union leader, or a lobbyist, saying, why would they give 10,000, is it part of their lobbying plan for some type of access buying. It opens the whole arena up to questions in the public's mind.
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