The Obama campaign definitely tapped into a lot of ordinary Americans' desire for change. According to Ezra Klein his campaign got $500m from 6.5m small donations . It is difficult to imagine something like that happening in a British election!
However, of course, the fact that parties get free Party Political Broadcasts in elections and can't buy TV time helps reduce the cost of our elections compared to the ridiculously expensive ones in the US.
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