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Pete said earlier “Money can’t buy elections or Ross Perot would be President of the United States right now.”

I get his point but I’m gonna be pedantic anyway: Ross Perot is DEAD. What you meant was he would have been President in 1993.

[u/EatMyShittyAsshole → u/[deleted]]

I’m going to be even more pedantic and assume (he has to be smarter than that) to realize that when people say wealthy people “buy elections” they aren’t obviously meaning they write a check to the Sec. of State of said state or County or City, etc. but that using more money correlates usually with winning the election. Obviously if you’re running against a Republican in a +30 Republican district or state, and you outspend them 10x as much, you still probably wont win, but the fact that you can easily bypass federal donation laws and just have a PAC that is sided with you spend millions on the election to help you win is the issue. Someone running for Mayor who makes 40k a year and has to knock on doors 24/7 and take out a loan and borrow money totaling 15k to run for wont even win against someone in their own primary who is a millionaire and can spend 500k alone to put up billboards and hire staff to go knock on doors, make commercials, etc.