[EL] Last Rites of Public Campaign Financing

[Steve Gold]

I look forward to reading Prof. Sample's article.  Judging by the abstract,
I expect I'll find some of his arguments persuasive.

I'll be particularly interested to see, however, whether he addresses
small-dollar contribution matching programs as a means not of equalizing
candidate speech vis-a-vis outside spending, but as a means — even in
less-populous states — of achieving a floor of funding necessary for a
candidate to be viable without having to rely disproportionately on
higher-dollar contributors.  Or simply as an incentive to get would-be
contributors to engage more in the political process.

The aim of public funding doesn't always have to be matching opposition
spending dollar-for-dollar.  That critique of public funding may similarly
be on the way out as public funding evolves.

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