Angie Craig: “the debate over campaign finance reform is what I like to call the ``News of the Day''. The media has been on a feeding…”

“the debate over campaign finance reform is what I like to call the ``News of the Day''. The media has been on a feeding frenzy looking for angles to show that this issue had divided members of Congress. That it had divided the members of the same party. There there is a cry of outrage across America as people stand by ready to storm the Capitol in protest. But despite the massive media hype, the public really doesn't care about the campaign finance reform issue. In the most recent ABC News/ Washington Post poll--where people were asked about the most important problems facing the country--campaign finance reform did not even appear as one of the top 10 items on the list. In fact, it didn't appear at all. The same stands true for the latest CBS News poll, the latest CNN/Gallup Poll, and even last month's L-A Times poll. After extensive research of all the major polls, campaign finance has not showed up as a concern among American at all. What is important to the American people are issues like crime, the economy, health care, education, social security, and the moral decline of the country. What people really care about is whether their children will get safely back and forth from school--and whether they'll get a good education in the public schools. They care about keeping their jobs and trying to make ends meet while they watch a good portion of their hard earned money going to Washington to support a wasteful and inefficient Federal Government bureaucracy.”