Result Won’t Limit Campaign Money Any More Than Ruling Did

By  NICHOLAS CONFESSORE

With all of the fuss surrounding the presidential election, it is not a surprise that there are multiple articles about many issues in the New York Times. This particular article deals with spending on campaigns and how it is divided. Confessore begins the article expressing the way in which Obama won the presidency in an interesting manner: acts as though it is a bit of a triumphant story where the hero ended up on top over the evil villains. Thus led the reader to believe that the author is most definitely a democrat fighting against the Republicans. Yet he maintains the ability to appeal to pathos by pushing the fact that his political affiliation is besides the point because in the end, both sides were fighting for campaign money. He finishes the article with an interesting quote from a professor of law and political science "“If the Democratic Party is smart, they are going to try to preserve the structure of what Obama did and keep it going,” said Rick Hasen, a professor of law and political science at the University of California, Irvine, and an expert on voting and campaign finance. “If Republicans are smart, they are going to try to replicate it.”"By ending in this manner the author once again shows how both parties are equal in their means of trying to achieve something and arguing about it, when really they are the exact same.