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Hasn’t this been going on for years? People made the same complaints about spending on TV adverts. Is it substantively worse in this election, or just spending
by blowski 7y ago
Hasn’t this been going on for years? People made the same complaints about spending on TV adverts. Is it substantively worse in this election, or just spending a bit more on a different type of media? I don’t know, genuine question from a Brit.
- paulgb 7y agoPart of the problem is that it's a self-funded campaign. It's one thing when a campaign raises a bunch of money from donors and does an ad blitz, because at least it in theory represents real people (with contribution caps) who donated. When it's a billionaire self-funding, that's not the case. (PACs are also problematic, because they side-step the contribution caps)
- Aunche 7y agoWhat's the alternative though? Even assuming it would be constitutional to cap Bloomberg's political spending, I don't see why Bloomberg's supporters should have to donate money to the campaign of the 9th richest person in the world.