For under $500,000, a Presidential candidate can now buy his own program.

Using vouchers, candidates could buy time at any station, during any program.

Moreover, anyone voting in the straw poll had to buy a $25 ticket - which, of course, the presidential candidates bought for their supporters.

It has been criticized as a poor test of support because the candidates essentially buy the tickets for the attendees who do the voting.

That wealthy candidates can buy political offices is a formidable problem.

Actually, it seems ALL the candidates buy tickets and hand them out to their supporters for free.

In the nation's top 75 media markets, the Democratic candidates have bought at least 12,700 spots.

So far, most candidates buy that argument, or at least go along with it.

That is the portrait of the American voter the candidates have bought.

Under this method, candidates buy a voting slip from a booking office.