days before the elections on November 3rd, when Democrats dared to dream of unified control of Washington and a coming progressive remake of America, two especially optimistic indicators elicited particular giddiness. First, of course, were the horse-race polls showing Joe Biden ahead of President Donald Trump by nine or so percentage points.
Whether campaign spending actually moves voters is an unsettled debate—one of special academic interest to American political scientists and of special pecuniary interest to America’s political-consulting-industrial complex. The political consultants would probably point to the robust correlation between raising the most money and winning an election: even in 2020, 89% of House candidates who spent most went on to win; the same was true of 70% of Senate candidates .
Democrats will want a more thorough post-mortem than that, though, given not just their recent grief but also a cruel irony of history. As the Supreme Court issued ruling after ruling deregulating campaign financing, most prominently in itsdecision ten years ago, Democrats fretted that free-flowing dollars from rich Republican donors would place them at a permanent disadvantage, consigning them to the minority for the foreseeable future.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the prominent Democratic socialist representative, issued a two-pronged post-mortem of her own soon after the disappointing election: moderate Democrats had failed to win because they had ignored online advertising on platforms like Facebook, and had neglected the years-long organising it takes to turn out voters. The first part of her theory is suspect, but the second may be correct.
Where did all of Biden’s ‘donations’ come from? Not all from George Soros.
Mr Big bought and sold by big tech
Why is he still begging for money?
China thinks so
No doubt It mattered. It won him 2020.
What matters is that the US is not- by the people, of the people, for the people. The US is a corpocracy- all about who pays, how much, to whom and what they get in return.
That's why big money big tech behind it. It's real capitalism. It's really against lower class people.
People don't have money to survive but the campaign earned well
Diminishing returns
RT : Joe Biden’s campaign raised $952m, or nearly 60% more than Donald Trump’s. Did that matter?
ownedbywallstreet BejingBiden
There were multiple news stories stating that Trump had raised well over 1 billion ahead of the election. Check your numbers
No, trump still did better than expected.
How much of the campaign donations go to the campaigns, and how much to the campaign profiteers?
We need a lesser focus on campaign fundraising and more focus on grassroots efforts. That money could have been spent to fund a diverse range of nonprofit efforts.
It can buy fraudulent ballots
Biden still hasn’t answered his corruption allegations.
LEADERSHIP defeated TWEETERSHIP DEMOCRACY defeated FAKE TanTrumP's
China tech.
The democrats are now the party of the establishment. Pro Wall Street, Pro UN, Pro Davos, Pro War, against keeping jobs in America and enemy of the average American. What a rapid transformation.
Suitcases and suitcases of fake ballots for Bidens..time for Bidens to concede
More money = more fraud.
Fuck dirty money and pay-to-play politics.
He's President, so it's kind of academic
YOU REALLY ARE...
China has deep pockets
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