Gambling and Democrats.. take a chance on Disaster in Denver
To: AmericanMade1776
To: AmericanMade1776
3 posted on
07/08/2008 8:16:49 AM PDT by
weegee
(What is the term for an irrational fear of American imperialism and why does the media never use it?)
To: AmericanMade1776
Gambling is an addiction and should not be paraded around like this.
It would be as though he offered free drinks for the entire evening to an alcoholic.
9 posted on
07/08/2008 8:23:33 AM PDT by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: AmericanMade1776
I guess this would be considered a lottery or raffle, but what lottery doesn’t increase your chances with amount spent?
What makes this more interesting is this is offered nationwide isn’t it? So this isn’t just social gambling where there isn’t one or more money-makers (clearly the Obama campaign is the “House” in this case).
How does offering a “prize” affect political contributions?
Especially since unlike a dinner or meet ‘n’ greet fundraiser, all participants don’t get something in return.
12 posted on
07/08/2008 8:27:11 AM PDT by
visualops
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To: AmericanMade1776
McCain has a similar donation lottery going on. Donate and win a chance to ride the “Straight Talk Express” bus. It might be over by now, but I got an email asking for $ with this as the prize...for some reason it didn’t tempt me to donate :p
To: AmericanMade1776
"This dude's got some power balls."
18 posted on
07/08/2008 8:31:40 AM PDT by
davidlachnicht
("IF WE'RE ALL TO BE TARGETS, THEN WE ALL MUST BE SOLDIERS.")
To: AmericanMade1776
Truth be told, I don't care whether it's legal or not. The way it's set up, it will be an administrative nightmare for his campaign if he is honest with it. (Yea, I know...big IF.) Think about it. If you were about to give $1000 to his campaign, it now pays you to make that contribution as 200 smaller $5 donations, each one of which must be recorded somewhere, complete with name, address, etc. My guess is that the overhead of something like this for computing power and the people to enter the data will eat up about a third of the contributions. Get idea, Obama...sorta like a lot of your other proposals.
19 posted on
07/08/2008 8:32:01 AM PDT by
econjack
(Some people are as dumb as soup.)
To: AmericanMade1776
These kind if national “contests” usually end with a “Void where prohibited by law.”
31 posted on
07/08/2008 8:51:34 AM PDT by
IamConservative
(Character: What you do when no one is looking.)
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