Cryptocurrency-backed candidates sank while experienced legislators fared well, young voters stayed home and an incumbent congressman likely lost his seat
I'm wondering if the red boxes are getting to the point where they say that this or that campaign needs to spend more money on Tim, because I haven't voted yet for because my I-phone picked up on something I said -- or, even worse, how I answered the supposedly anonymous text message polls that I responded to from the Carrick Flynn Super PAC campaign. Was there a red box that said, keep calling Tim?
This is where we are now. The only consolation is that these Super Pacs are proving that there's a point of saturation in every campaign where the last dollars are chasing fewer and fewer voters so that it takes multiple thousands of dollars to gain a single additional vote. At that point, the beneficiaries of these practices are neither the voters nor the candidates but the consultants who earn their commissions on every ad or mailer. But, hey, that's money in the economy and second homes on the coast.
I'm wondering if the red boxes are getting to the point where they say that this or that campaign needs to spend more money on Tim, because I haven't voted yet for because my I-phone picked up on something I said -- or, even worse, how I answered the supposedly anonymous text message polls that I responded to from the Carrick Flynn Super PAC campaign. Was there a red box that said, keep calling Tim?
This is where we are now. The only consolation is that these Super Pacs are proving that there's a point of saturation in every campaign where the last dollars are chasing fewer and fewer voters so that it takes multiple thousands of dollars to gain a single additional vote. At that point, the beneficiaries of these practices are neither the voters nor the candidates but the consultants who earn their commissions on every ad or mailer. But, hey, that's money in the economy and second homes on the coast.