US billionaire helped to back Brexit

Re:US billionaire helped to back Brexit by averagewall on Sunday February 26, 2017 @05:55AM (#13736648)

I was a bit inaccurate there. I meant only the candidates who spend on the order of republican and democrat nominees. Independents can't afford to and they don't get votes. Except one or two guys in the 90's/2000's who got a big share at a huge financial expense.

Who even knows the name of any independent candidate? They don't have advertising to tell us what they stand for or make us believe they're big enough to win.

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Re:US billionaire helped to back Brexit by mike_hearn on Sunday February 26, 2017 @07:40AM (#13736944)

Arguably both Sanders and Trump were effectively independent. Neither had the support of their chosen parties.

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Re:US billionaire helped to back Brexit by blfr on Sunday February 26, 2017 @06:55AM (#13736806)

The alternative explanation is that candidates who run as independent aren't popular enough to garner either donations or votes. If they were, they could have won the primaries for one of the major parties. Like Trump did, certainly no favourite of the Republican establishment.

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