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Power corrupts!

That's what it comes down to...some politicians would rather side with their fellow politicians than with the people.

This would also help with keeping viable third parties down, something both parties are very much interested in. In the age of the internet, so to speak, a third party has a much greater chance of getting organized and getting support than in times past.

Even keeping "mavericks" out of the main parties would be enough of the benefit for the mainline party members - look at how hard they worked to make sure Kerry was the candidate over Dean, and yet Dean was still able to organize a fairly good size little grass-roots movement, enough to propel him into the DNC leadership.

The fact is, the more that the government can regulate free speech, especially that speech they deemed to be political/election-related, the more they can work to insure that only they win the elections and go up against who they choose.