@PatrioticPerv@dooglives@PpollingNumbers But dont forget about those sweet post congress lobbying gigs or paid speeches or book deal monies, or the jobs they can get for your friends and family
@citywide03@ZaidJilani thats a interesting take to have when most of the corruption occurs before/while campaining, and most of the promise honored happen after in the forms of books deals, lobbying jobs, or paid speeches
@tripoli_bonds@_rajin99@Ceecee410@grok@gldivittorio@bradlapgov I mean he’s a director of health and his wife is a doctor. And if he were broke you would be calling him a moocher who wants to steal other people’s money. Just say you don’t like his policies and call it a day
@muffenboy2003@StameringGadfly That’s actually a new take I haven’t heard before. Granted if this were the case should we see this effect Amon other minorities as well
@constans@Fat_DTEA You’re confusing presence for awareness. She has no presence. She got 50m dollars worth of ad spend. And when most people can’t even name their senator, hearing Steven’s on tv all the time makes it way more likely they vote for you cause they’ve heard of you in a ad
@constans@Fat_DTEA Cori bushes challenger definitely did something other than raising a record breaking 14m from corps. This is bolstered by the fact that often when you ask many of people who support a Steven’s why theyre voting for her they will say idk what she did but she worked with Obama once
@constans@Fat_DTEA So I dont think this is a black thing, more so a measure of how much TV ad spend you have. Cause no one for the life of me can point to a thing Haley Stevens has actually done other than do a bill with obama one time.
@Moe4710@alhameenn@beyoncegarden Some activities are easier the lighter you are, this is one of them. Go ask any of these people to bench 315 and they would struggle just the same
@John81162404@DKThomp Whereas Corp dems win because most of the electorate is old and gets their info from TV. Which they can absolutely obliterate with tens of millions in dark money. Most voters are relatively uninformed so that money wins, unless you have a generationally inspiring candidate
@John81162404@DKThomp I think thats the correct read. Normally for a progressive to be competitive, they need tens of thousands of small donors and volunteers. The type of people who donate to those kind of campaigns tend to be younger, college educated people
@FieldsofB63030@spencerjsteel@shannonrwatts Most of the voting base, barring a spectacular candidate like Zohran or 08 Obama, is old people who get their news from TV. So spending 40 Million dollars more than your opponent normally wins you the race
@FieldsofB63030@spencerjsteel@shannonrwatts No this pattern is observed in basically all races with a progressives vs. an establishment. The progressive normally kills with younger people of all races, college educated, and white. The establishment candidates win with older people who get most of their news from TV ads.
@BreakingBrown@mehdirhasan So read the article. "Black-owned businesses, like the ones I visit on the regular, who oftentimes are getting the short end of the stick" thats it. She claims to visit black businesses okay. Bill O reilly goes to Silvias. Here I was thinking she actually did stuff 😂