House Democrats who voted against cutting US aid to Israel received three times as much money from pro-Israel donors as those who voted in favor. (Median = 3.1 times as much.)
Democrats who voted against the amendment accepted an average of $348,239; those who voted in favor received $115,932 on average. All together, $34 million in pro-Israel cash was behind the votes against cutting aid to Israel.
Did the money actually buy votes? Or did the money simply help keep in office politicians who are comfortable ignoring voters?1 Neither option is very good.
Maybe binary choice for you, but it’s not binary if it’s 2 factions fighting for the same ideology
More Democrats voted for the amendment than against it. To pretend the two parties are the same is absurd. Yes, both are bad, but so is getting slapped in the face and shot in the leg.
It’s binary unless voters change the voting system like NYC, Maine, and Alaska voters. We’ve proved that we can change the system. The bigger fight is to change the voting system.