The left is always screaming about the need to get big money out of politics. But has big spending really translated into success at the polls this election season?
Jeb! isn’t the only one not getting much bang for his bucks.
Bloomberg offers up a chart that questions that assertion.
Every chance they get, the Left decries the Supreme Court’s Citizen’s United decision, presumably under the assumption that the candidate with the most money can sway the voters.
That assertion may actually be true for the Leftist lo-fos, but this election more than any other lays to rest that presumption for those of us that are more conservative and that actually pay attention – as proven by the drop-out of big bucks Jub!.
Doesn’t stop him from putting millions into his anti-2A Everytown propaganda.
Doesn’t stop him from putting millions into his anti-2A Everytown propaganda.
The Nation formerly “Silent Majority”
has its blood up. Money doesn’t mean
much when the tar and feather packs
are up against the superpacs.
Money is a tool.
How it’s spent is probably as important as how much is spent. It’s a proven fact that “walkin around money” goes far with Black preachers in urban communities whereas it’s never been tried in white suburbs, where slick TV commercials work better.
The best use, of course, is gov’t “subsidies” to “education” and unions and the like – defense contractors, third-party interlopers, welfare, farm subsidies, lawyers and other assorted maggots, &c.