Comment on They say “anyone can become president”, but this will be the first presidential election since 1970s, where there is no Bush, Clinton, or Biden on the ballot.

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• Carrolade@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Tell that to Hilary Clinton.

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  • HottieAutie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I gotchu, boo 😉👌

    Dear @HilaryRClinton@clinton.dynasty,

    Anyone that can be funded endlessly by a corporate and capitalist elite can become president.

    If billionaires and corporate leaders decided tomorrow that you should be president, they could dump millions of dollars and a few years worth of hired professional help and they’d make you president.

    It’s not the will of an individual person or a personality that makes a president … it’s whichever group of wealthy backers who decide to fund the campaign … after that it is j just a matter of how much money they are willing to spend to make it happen.

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    • Carrolade@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s cute, but the point is that despite Hilary’s very broad appeal to the big dollar doners, she was beaten by Obama in 2008 due to his, at the time very novel, online small dollar fundraising campaign. She was again defeated in 2016, despite having far more money given to her campaign than Trump.

      www.opensecrets.org/pres16 www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/02/…/index.html?iref…

      So the idea that the big doners actually dictate election results does not match our recent historical realities at all.

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• leadore@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That’s what Michael Bloomberg thought and he was wrong, too.

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