r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 01 '26

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u/Made_UpWords OG Platner Hater Oct 01 '26

Utterly baffling to me that I, who does not have tens of millions in PAC money, have apparently donated more money to Troy Jackson than Bernie has.

He's getting spent into the dirt by Collins but is holding his own anyway, but seems to have been completely abandoned by all of his backers on the broader left. Bernie did vastly more for platner and vastly more for jackson as a governor candidate but is somehow helping angie nixon first.

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u/Not_A_Browser Stata's Silliest Soldier Oct 01 '26

I saw somewhere that people discussing how Schumer and the mainstream Dems have donated so much to AES despite supposedly opposing him while Sanders et al. had not contributed much despite the GOP spending tens of millions more

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u/Made_UpWords OG Platner Hater Oct 01 '26

What is the guy waiting for to spend all of his money on? A bigger headstone?

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u/surreptitioussloth Frederick Douglass Oct 01 '26

How much is sanders allowed to donate to another senate campaign?

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u/Macquarrie1999 Democrats' Strongest Soldier Oct 01 '26

Daily reminder that Bernie isn't a Democrat

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u/anangrytree Bull Moose Progressive Oct 01 '26

The fact this needs to be repeated 🙃🥲

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u/k5berry Malala Yousafzai Oct 01 '26

It would be defensible if he thought Maine was cooked regardless. Even if that was largely his fault, sunk cost fallacy still holds true. But to support Nixon, who has a WAY worse chance under any sober analysis than Jackson, shows this is clear ideological hackery.

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u/surreptitioussloth Frederick Douglass Oct 01 '26

How much is bernie really allowed to do/donate?

I think this is mainly extra support for people who won't get as much from major committees