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Re:Capitalism Is Collapsing and Nothing Is Rising to Replace It by jcranmer on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @10:40AM (#13374667)
What happened after the election is that a lot of those people decided to try to convince themselves that maybe a Trump administration won't be so bad, but yes, they were very-much anti-Trump on election day.
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Re:Capitalism Is Collapsing and Nothing Is Rising to Replace It by cylinder on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @11:31AM (#13375087)
And not to mention Clinton spent about $1 billion from very large donors on a very industrialized campaign based on TV advertising and direct mail, while Trump spent $60 million made up of small donations. To say presidential elections are won by big money oligarchs is kind of silly.
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Re:Capitalism Is Collapsing and Nothing Is Rising to Replace It by alphabettsy on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @12:26PM (#13375618)
$60 Million? He put in over $60 Million of just his own money so that figure is off bigly! Big money put their money into PACs on both sides so it's impossible to say they have/had no effect. WAPost: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-electi... Forture: http://fortune.com/2016/12/09/donald-trump-campaign-spending...
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