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I think that federal matching funds should be banned. Last year, I wrote to about six U.S. senators and 12 U.S. reps. about this issue. I said that each candidate should be responsible for funding his or her campaign, without help from the taxpayers. I hope that no money that I earned was given to Kerry's campaign, and many Democrats hope that no money that they earned was given to Bush. I haven't received any responses.

I'm glad that Edwards is still running. I hope that more Democrats will run. That might cause them to argue during their convention and cause many of them to vote for the Green Party candidate. The last five democrat presidential nominees who had ever been U.S. senators are John Kerry, Al Gore, Walter Mondale, George McGovern, and Hubert Humphrey, and all five of them lost. Next year, if they nominate ex-Sen. Edwards, Sen. Clinton, or Sen. Obama, that Democrat will probably lose too.