a hand basket, and we re talking about contraception. we have had enough theater around money and politics. we ll do that later in the show today. the media is a huge part of the problem. the media is too influential to the extent that money is. we don t have to go through all of it. but what would you recommend? how would you reform what nbc does? what abc does? first of all, i would limit them in topics. one debate is on foreign affairs. that s it. do nothing but discuss foreign affairs. number two, i would have a format where i would let the candidatesç ask each other candidates. if they ask snarky questions, they have to take the risk of looking snarky. but have a real discussion, but focus the daeebates on one. we could have discussed energy in one debate. environment in one debate.
primaries. have you seen a line to vote against on a ballot? i didn t think so. we often vote for the lesser of two evils, but it s still evil. then there s washington s revolving door. it it gives special interest the power to influence what laws are written. election cycles are media gold. billions are spent on ads. $3 357b9 billion inning a ga gat revenues. double that this year with $7 billion forecast. politics depend og funding from private interests who are rarely aligned with the voter s interests. the green curtain of money has d.c. in a strangle hold. it s why we don t have real debate on fixing banking, health, education, energy, defense, or trade. but there is a way to fix it. first, we need to get a 28th amendment to get money out.
in second. and it s interesting. it s either jon huntsman or ron paul. ron paul comes in second, it doesn t do a thing. because ron paul will stay at this level. he has no growth potential. or limited growth potential. if jon huntsman comes in second, he might have a bounce, except the next state is south carolina, where the voter base is not inclined to be a favorable one for jon huntsman. and the only way jon huntsman competes financially is can he get his family and himself to put the money in? here s the interesting thing. and i actually consider this a great deal of encouragement. i like to talk a lot about the issues of trade reform. issues really with a nonfunctioning flow of money. that the flow of money is leaving america. it s not coming into america. that s the reason. everything else is a symptom of that. no question. it s inspiring to me to know that the two presidential candidates in the republican
let s learn about why that is. the reason it s over is because the fundraising goes with the winner. is that correct? if it wasn t for the private money that s trying to only bet on the winning horse, winning early wouldn t be so determined. it s over for two reasons. one is the money goes with the winning horse. rick santorum raised a lot of money since iowa. but the media ends it too. the media doesn t say, hold on. it s iowa and new hampshire. let s wait until we get to florida and michigan and ohio and places like that. we declare the winner. we declare the winner, again, based on two states that aren t veryç representative. why do we do that? we shouldn t. i think what s going to happen tonight is that mitt romney is going to win clearly. but probably not by enough to score the knockout we re talking about. then the focus goes to who comes
we must reform our election system to add an against li%e on the ballot. jerry mandering must ent. and we must also demand visibility from our elected leaders and use values to expose the interests that are crippling washington. these are the ways to break this alliance. we as a society, of course, have a massive opportunity to seize those values and choice in even the smallest way. here to help us learn how to do that, friends of the show and teachers of mine. arianna huffington. i really want to point out the author of the book third world america. it s a delight to see both of