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Unseen replied to the topic
2020 in the forum Politics 1 year, 9 months ago
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]
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic
2020 in the forum Politics 1 year, 9 months ago
#PB_Like #25316
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic
2020 in the forum Politics 1 year, 9 months ago
[…] 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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PopeBeanie replied to the topic
2020 in the forum Politics 1 year, 12 months ago
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. -
_Robert_ posted an update in the group
Politics 2 years, 2 months ago
State of the Union and the Dem response seemed like religious Sermons at times
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Davis replied to the topic
2020 in the forum Politics 2 years, 2 months ago
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 The next government (centre-right) partially repealed this…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic
2020 in the forum Politics 2 years, 2 months ago
I read this yesterday about them saying “No” to PAC money.
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Unseen replied to the topic
2020 in the forum Politics 2 years, 2 months ago
We are slowly entering an age where accepting PAC money is unacceptable for Democrat Party candidates.
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PopeBeanie started the topic
2020 in the forum Politics 2 years, 2 months ago
Michael Bloomberg’s Secret Plans to Take Down Trump
Here’s a paragraph from the article:
Much of the thinking is informed by Bloomberg’s experience in the 2018 midterms, when he spent more than $100 million to become the single biggest Democratic donor, winning in 21 of the 24 races where his Independence USA PAC got directly involved.
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_Robert_ posted an update in the group
Politics 2 years, 2 months ago
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PopeBeanie started the topic
Shameless Political Cons vs Constitutional Remedies in the forum Politics 2 years, 4 months ago
Hoping to keep a list here of the most unethical political practices, and how some states (whether in USA or other countries) mitigate them. Potential corruption in any institution with power is a given, and well thought out state constitutions are written to head it off. Constitutional amendments are after thoughts that are difficult to…[Read more]
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