Imagine if we fixed the fucking election laws and we could use that money for literally anything else.
That money would be in coffers of private wealthy individuals. You’re thinking of taxes. And we do also spend that much on taxes that don’t come back to us, aside from the stability of the new world order that comes from bombs instead of books. :/
a record for any campaign in history.
Two-thirds of the first-time donors were women, the campaign said
Hear that Don?
Women are fucking pissed.
#VOTE!
Women should be pissed. People joke about the Handmaid’s Tale but that really is the kind of world that the other side wants. A world where women are property and have only the rights that their husbands grant them.
Oh, you mean Sharia Law, lol. The evangelical asshats seem to be watching what the Taliban are doing and taking notes.
Fresh lies from Don and Shady: Trump will absolutely commit to vetoing national abortion ban.
Sure Jan. We are supposed to just believe-me-bro that guy who takes pride in killing Roe will somehow give a fuck about women’s rights all of a sudden
With his whole let the state decide idea, would be funny if all us females move to the blue states and there’s nothing but males in the red ones. 🤣
Would probably advance women’s rights and gay rights.
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Republicans sell hate and fear, democrats sell hope and optimism. I know which I’d pick.
This has actually been shown through studies a number of times!
Plenty of correlative studies that show the left associated with positive and the right associated with negative: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rstb.2011.0268
But also some causal studies where people are more conservative when they’re scared or more progressive when they feel safe: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ejsp.2315
…and both continue to slide right.
What I don’t get is why this is such an essential metric. What does this extra money give the campaign that it didn’t have last week? I understand that it takes a lot of money to run an organization in all 50 states, filing all the required paperwork with each state and making sure that voters have accurate information. But doesn’t extra money just go into advertising? Are these people really just a GoFundMe for the media?
I guess I need someone to explain why this extra money might translate into something tangible for Harris. Because if it doesn’t, then this is just an Internet poll where people get 1 vote per dollar contributed, and the money raised only helps some ad rep meet his quota for the month.
Television advertising. It might be hard to believe, but there are way more low information voters than you might imagine. TV advertising is expensive too. Jeff Jackson (NC congressman, running for NC State AG after he was gerrymandered out of Congress) has done a great job addressing this in his short videos.
It takes a lot of money to run for national office. Advertising, logistics, etc. Trump has stiffed a lot of communities and not paid his bills. Which is the reason he resorts to outdoor events. These venues want money up front. In addition, if the numbers look e right, the Harris campaign can share the wealth with down ballot candidates.
Down ballot is key. The true power in this country is the state houses. They make the maps, the laws at the local level, and can make or break a country.
A lot of the bullshit we are dealing with right now are the direct result of the 2010 election cycle. The Republicans gerrymandered a fuck ton of states and it’s going to take quite a few cycles to fix it. People are now paying attention to what they are doing, so that helps immensely, but they need to understand that one election isn’t going to do it.
I wonder why it isn’t a bigger story that the campaign is stiffing venues like this
Did you not pay attention to the news of this in 2016 & 2020?
There were nearly weekly reports of another person or org coming forward about stiffed bills.
Exactly. Why hasn’t some investigative reporter tracked them all down and let everyone know how much he has effectively stolen from these venues? As long as we only hear about it one at a time, nobody will care.
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Wow. You’d think that that much money would make her less afraid of AIPAC’s influence and empower her to apply the principles of justice that she keeps bragging about evenly. Makes me wonder if she’s actually just ideologically bound to genocide like her mentor Joe.
If you’re wondering why you’re getting down voted:
You threw out a straw man argument, and one that doesn’t even make sense on top of that.
Oh, I’m not wondering at all. It’s very clear to me that the US generally holds pretty reprehensible views on these topics (as does the community here on Lemmy). But thanks.
