In political campaigns today there are problems. One of the problems with campaigns today is “soft money.” Another problem I believe we should address is, candidates making promises to get elected and then not keeping those promises. One final problem that should be addressed is the way the candidates go about being elected.The first problem with campaigns today deals with campaign contributions. People can only give so much money to a candidate themselves, so they instead give money to the political party of the candidate. This money cannot go to the candidate, so the political party uses this money to pay for ads, telephone calls and other tedious items that they can pay for the supports their candidate. This type of campaign contribution is called “soft money” and there is legislation under way to prevent candidates from using “soft money” during their legislation. This problem needs to be addressed by either making “soft money” contributions illegal, or by saying that candidates cannot use “soft money” to help pay for ads, and telephone calls in their campaign.Another problem with political campaigns is about campaign promises made by candidates. Candidates that make campaign promises need to keep them, it is all to familiar in America that candidates make campaign promises to get into office and then do not keep their promises. This is a common practice in politics and people are used to it and that is a problem, when a candidate promises to lower taxes, cut federal spending, or anything else and when they don’t they should be held accountable. They need to only make promises they can keep, because some official can make all of these campaign promises that sound really good but they have no intention of following through. By doing this some candidates are basically lying to get into office. To get rid of these problems we need to instate som...
