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I think you are generally correct. But I have 2 caveats:

FEC laws are a bitch. So much campaign money goes just for lawyers to answer questions like this. It's worse at the state level. But still, you can't just take the money and go home, there are lots of legalities and filings, and I think it also depends on where the money came from too, I mean, if you went for public financing or not.
Rarely does a campaign come away with a large surplus of contributions after an election. Mostly, they come out in debt. Campaigns are just so expensive. When you hear about "war chests", those are often personal funds.

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Fri Oct 17th, 2008 at 06:50:42 PM EST
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Oh, I completely agree. Campaigns are incredibly expensive to run, and the campaign finance laws -- hell, even just getting into a primary -- are offensive. And you really couldn't run a proper national campaign on the public financing amounts. The organizing alone, done well, would eat up at least a hundred mil.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Fri Oct 17th, 2008 at 06:55:39 PM EST
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