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• seehafer 13y ago
  This is useful, thanks. Though I wonder if the connection is causal.
• dragonwriter 13y ago
  Correlation is not causation; most Congressional races have either an incumbent or a structural advantage in registration for one party (often both, favoring the same party) and whichever party has one or both of those advantages will usually also gain more donations. There's plenty of cases were elections where for one reason or another the money tips the opposite direction of those advantages -- and the money loses, while the structural advantages win. Money is nice, but there's plenty of reason to think that it is more likely to be the product of structural electoral advantage than the source of it.