Politics

Here’s a campaign funding idea. Campaign donations are allowed up to some ungodly high limit. But the government’s Handicapper General (a character borrowed from a Kurt Vonnegut novel) would handicap the election by making up the difference for the candidate receiving less money. If one candidate receives $22 million in donations but the other…[Read more]

#PB_Like #25316

[…] a look back at the 2016 presidential candidate media coverage

Graph of Trump vs Clinton media coverage before 2016 election

(Data covers up to Dec 1 2016. I might add more to this topic later wrt 2020 election media coverage.)

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BIKINI PHOTOS!? DUMP THE TRUMP!!
Just kidding, no link there. But while you’re here, if you haven’t seen it in the general Small Talk forum, @Unseen started an interesting discussion about Tulsi Gabbard running in 2020.

Canada has had limited donations laws for a decade now. A centre-left government introduced very limited donations from both businesses (a few thousand dollars at most) and invidivudals (a few hundred). In return after each election the parties were given around $1 per vote for financing. The next government (centre-right) partially repealed this…[Read more]

I read this yesterday about them saying “No” to PAC money.

We are slowly entering an age where accepting PAC money is unacceptable for Democrat Party candidates.