Originally Posted By: whomod
McCain's already gotten himself into legal trouble with the public financing system ... McCain drew criticism of his own earlier this year when he backed away from public financing for the primary elections. He initially sought those public matching funds, which come with limits of their own, after his campaign nearly ran out of money, but decided to bypass them after donations started coming in....That makes McCain a campaign finance criminal.


Oopsie: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Thursday he'll bypass the federal public financing system in the general election, abandoning an earlier commitment