After he accepts the nomination for president tonight, John Kerry is expected to accept $75M in public financing, which means he can no longer accept (or spend) money from donors. George Bush is expected to follow the same path, but because the Republican National Convention is 5 weeks later than the Dems, he has more time to spend the $$$ he's raised.

According to Salon, Joe Trippi thinks that Kerry should take the risk and reject this public financing. But Salon points out that this route means that "if Kerry revved up his fundraising machine again he'd be competing with national Democratic congressional and state candidates." There's also the risk of "unleashing a new campaign-contribution arms race that the GOP would in the end win, given its superior resource base."

Well, what this means to me is that for the first time, I'm planning to donate money to the Democratic National Committee, which has just pledged to spend $6 million in August to make sure that W isn't the only one on the airwaves.

Please...pass it on.

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