Campaign Expenses: Like Poetry?

The Takeaway

Yesterday on the show, ProPublica reporter Kim Barker said that going through Ron Paul’s expenses was “like poetry.” “I really just saw it like a way to track what it’s like to campaign,” Barker said.  The thousands of lines of expenses in the Federal Election Commission filing from the Ron Paul campaign include everything:  iTunes music, FedEx mailings, Salvation Army supplies, travel tolls, party rentals, and meals at places called Smash Burger and Thai Flavors.

Today we’re talking about election year poetry: seeing truth and beauty from the tiny details of a campaign’s mundane expenses.

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