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Re:Why Don't Americans Understand How Poor Their Lives Are? by carlmr on Thursday April 04, 2019 @09:04AM (#19571760)
Campaign spending is not the whole picture. How many outside interests contributed otherwise to HC and DT in the last election?

You can start an ad campaign against a candidate you don't like without that showing up in the campaign fund.

Re:Why Don't Americans Understand How Poor Their Lives Are? by freshm087 on Thursday April 04, 2019 @09:38AM (#19572110)
HC factically started her campaign right after the first Obama's term, had support of party leadership, and therefore major party donors, and having sympathies of the press. DT started his campaign a year before elections, was rudiculed by mainstream Republican opinion-makers until May 2016, was (and is) in a conflict with major donors (like Koch brothers), and had/has generally unfriendly relations with press. So unless you imply some very big conspiracy theory I don't see how he could have even a chance to outspent HC.
Re:Why Don't Americans Understand How Poor Their Lives Are? by carlmr on Thursday April 04, 2019 @11:08AM (#19573187)
I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that campaign finances are only a partial picture.

I also think HC had much more backing.