Seems that once a candidate has accepted his party's nomination, he has to stop spending publically raised money and is "limited" to $75,000,000 the rest of the way.
The Dem's Convention is 5 weeks before the GOP. Seems President Bush selected the latest date in US Presidential History. Cool move President Bush. So if Kerry accepts the nomination at his convention he has to cut back his spending immediately while Bush has 5 weeks of virtually unlimited spending. So Kerry is thinking of not acceting the nomination at the convention and waiting until later to try and keep things even.
We don't need any campaign finance reform
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