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

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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