If you're wealthy and your Republican candidate tanks, you get your money back. Just like if you're a giant bank and you tank, the feds step in to help. However, if you're of modest means on either front,  or a working-class victim of Katrina, don't bother exerting yourself because you'll never see your money again.

 From the Los Angeles Times:

Wealthy donors receiving refunds from GiulianiThis could be Rudy Giuliani's own brand of national economic stimulus.

Unwinding
his once-promising campaign, the onetime Republican front-runner has
been handing out refund checks amounting to $3.16 million in February
alone to more than 1,400 of his wealthy presidential campaign donors.

In
a campaign finance filing, Giuliani discloses that he raised a total of
$64.94 million for his campaign and spent $56.95 million on his
candidacy, which ended after his loss in the Florida primary.

The rest of the money is being returned, most in $2,300 chunks to more than 1,400 donors.