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Originally Posted by WaldoKitty
Incorrect. ( As usual)
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Tell that to Mitt Romney. Or Karl Rove. Big money no longer counts like it once did in our most recent elections.
That's why the Koch brothers quit making political donations entirely. They were just throwing their money away in the millions. Money just doesn't count. If anything it tends to work against the candidate who has too much of it.
The biggest donors saw the end was coming after 2016, and 2018 cinched it with the smaller big donors.
The Mercers have quit along with the Kochs, and almost all the others have followed their lead. The only big money that remains comes from individual crackpots, mostly old men, who have more to throw away than they'll ever need.
What does count now are the small donations. The $20 donations that pinch the person. Those donations mean that person is willing to work for the candidate, will stand out in the rain all day to vote. $20 dollars indicates a committed voter. $10,000,000 does not.
The $20 demands a lot more work for the candidate to obtain, but the payoff for the work is much better. Taking the big money is seen now as being a cop-out and toadying up to the ultra-wealthy.
In 2016, the only big money donor who was safe from those charges was the NRA, and now they're too broke to donate anything at all.
As always, Trump is oblivious to all this, so he'll spend like crazy. But since he's crazy, spending it won't help him win 2020.
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