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Re: 2020 (non-presidential) elections stuff
« Reply #200 on: October 15, 2020, 09:17:06 PM »
MIR is going to say mean things about this lady I can feel it
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Re: 2020 (non-presidential) elections stuff
« Reply #201 on: October 15, 2020, 09:29:13 PM »
Sounds like some Donna Brazile character must have been feeding her the questions. Very shady if you ask me
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Re: 2020 (non-presidential) elections stuff
« Reply #202 on: October 16, 2020, 05:04:26 AM »
Damn good think I never placed that predictit bet back in the early summer.

FWIW neither of the only two Des Moines news stations that anyone watches, including the one that hosted that debate, played that clip on their 10:00 news, nor did they have it on their social media. The Lincoln Protect has it though and I'm guessing we'll see it on ads the last three weeks of campaigning.

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Re: 2020 (non-presidential) elections stuff
« Reply #203 on: October 16, 2020, 05:09:15 AM »
MIR is going to say mean things about this lady I can feel it

She's a clown. Didn't embrace trumpism until this summer as a plot to get reelected and it blew up in her face. She had a dumb motorcycle rally last weekend, we drove by it a couple of times, a lot of crackers having a superspreader event with no masks, same uterus l idiots who came to watch the cheeto on Wednesday.

She'll probably run in and win the primary for Grassley's senate seat in two years.

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Re: 2020 (non-presidential) elections stuff
« Reply #204 on: October 16, 2020, 05:20:01 AM »
Where the hell is all of this money coming from and shouldn't we as a country be disturbed by this?

https://twitter.com/KCCINews/status/1316891616284606466

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Re: 2020 (non-presidential) elections stuff
« Reply #205 on: October 16, 2020, 05:34:43 AM »
Corporate America runs the show. Aren't you entertained?

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Re: 2020 (non-presidential) elections stuff
« Reply #206 on: October 16, 2020, 05:55:52 AM »
the majority of the money comes from individual donations from american citizens.  it's not a good way to run elections, but the show is being run by us.
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« Reply #207 on: October 16, 2020, 06:20:11 AM »
the majority of the money comes from individual donations from american citizens.  it's not a good way to run elections, but the show is being run by us.

Large Contributions   $282,507,952   52.52%
Small Individual Contributions (< $200)   $203,671,028   37.87%
Other   $51,669,512   9.60%


Is open secrets a decent spot to get info like this?  I don’t know what constitutes a large contribution so a lot of individual contributions could be in that bucket.
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Re: 2020 (non-presidential) elections stuff
« Reply #208 on: October 16, 2020, 06:58:32 AM »
large contributions = contributions between $2800-$200.  small contributions are less than $200.
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Re: 2020 (non-presidential) elections stuff
« Reply #209 on: October 16, 2020, 07:27:40 AM »
Where the hell is all of this money coming from and shouldn't we as a country be disturbed by this?

https://twitter.com/KCCINews/status/1316891616284606466

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Re: 2020 (non-presidential) elections stuff
« Reply #210 on: October 16, 2020, 07:32:41 AM »
If that money can help offset the overrepresentation of rural voters, it seems like a good thing to me.

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Re: 2020 (non-presidential) elections stuff
« Reply #211 on: October 16, 2020, 07:47:35 AM »
I'm curious how much comes from out of state. Obviously the internet (and how the internet has evolved) makes a huge difference.

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Re: 2020 (non-presidential) elections stuff
« Reply #212 on: October 16, 2020, 01:49:59 PM »
I figured the "Large Contribution" category would be >$2800. 
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Re: 2020 (non-presidential) elections stuff
« Reply #213 on: October 16, 2020, 01:51:23 PM »
Texags thinks it's China cash  :th_twocents:
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Re: 2020 (non-presidential) elections stuff
« Reply #214 on: October 16, 2020, 02:10:34 PM »
Mrs. WnK was trigger happy on donating to this year's elections.  Many senators in other states received our money and she let me know afterwards.

I'm impressed with the amount of small contributions.  People want change. 

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Re: 2020 (non-presidential) elections stuff
« Reply #215 on: October 16, 2020, 05:28:59 PM »
Where the hell is all of this money coming from and shouldn't we as a country be disturbed by this?

https://twitter.com/KCCINews/status/1316891616284606466

Damn, that is a lot of money

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Re: 2020 (non-presidential) elections stuff
« Reply #216 on: October 16, 2020, 05:31:54 PM »
Where the hell is all of this money coming from and shouldn't we as a country be disturbed by this?

https://twitter.com/KCCINews/status/1316891616284606466
I’m surprised it isn’t 10/10 every new election cycle I guess
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« Reply #217 on: October 16, 2020, 05:41:29 PM »
Are TV stations just swimming in Scrooge McDuck piles of gold from all this campaign spend?
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Re: 2020 (non-presidential) elections stuff
« Reply #218 on: October 16, 2020, 05:47:14 PM »
I figured the "Large Contribution" category would be >$2800.

$2800 is the contribution limit for donations to candidates.  if you want to give a lot of money, you have to give it to a superpac.  you can also give a medium-large amount of money to a party group (like the dscc or kansas republican party, for example)
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« Reply #219 on: October 16, 2020, 06:02:13 PM »
I have $25 to Jaime Harrison.


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Re: 2020 (non-presidential) elections stuff
« Reply #220 on: October 16, 2020, 06:09:15 PM »
I gave a few bucks to Mark Kelly too but I don’t remember how much. Winning the Senate is way more important than the presidency.


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Re: 2020 (non-presidential) elections stuff
« Reply #221 on: October 16, 2020, 06:11:07 PM »
Where the hell is all of this money coming from and shouldn't we as a country be disturbed by this?

https://twitter.com/KCCINews/status/1316891616284606466
I’m surprised it isn’t 10/10 every new election cycle I guess
I don't think there's 10 truly competitive Senate races most years and I'm assuming that until very recently less money was spent on races in smaller states

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