It helps the professional fund raisers and campaign strategy people stay employed. And we the people allow this to continue, just like we let the illegal alien problem go until we are knee deep in illegals.
Apperently since either the Democrats or the Republicans fillbuster every attept to fix the problem In all the back slapping, people seem to have missed last week was a negative victory. It did not gain the Right anything, it merely prevented the other side from winning anything All last week did was maintain the status quo, which supposedly is the whole problem with the border.
I know in comparison for the length of campaign we have and population in the UK, the percentage is probably the same but because of the length of your campaigns the total amount to me I think is appalling.
Surely it could be spent on much better causes than funding politicians to gallivant around the country, many of which stand no chance of getting elected in the first place.
This is not meant as an attack on your country as such but an observation from someone from another country which has a different but of course just as bad but in a smaller scale system.