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The tea party was very astroturfed at the beginning -- how many of these protests were co-funded by investors in republican campaigns? If funding to protests w
by mjburgess 9y ago
The tea party was very astroturfed at the beginning -- how many of these protests were co-funded by investors in republican campaigns?
If funding to protests were correlated with funding to candidates (which in this case, it almost certainly is) then the variable with political consequences is "amount of campaign funding".
- aaron695 9y agoIt was correlated with rainfall.
- mjburgess 9y agoYes, but are they looking at protests in the sense meant in OP? A campaign rally funded and organized as a protest is not a protest. If these were astroturfed then all they tell us that attendance at campaign rallies can have political effects.