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Re:GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker... by TheDong on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @03:02PM (#25838110)

While you may be able to point to one or two anomalies, we need more than that. If the MPA has the ear of 70% of congress, that's still enough to have their way on legislation, regardless of a few fringe elements.

As far as I can tell, there's not a large trend that this is changing currently. The candidate that spends the most still wins 70-80% of the time: https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/winning-vs-sp...

The cost of running a winning campaign has steadily increased as well: https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/election-tren...

Those trends, to me, do not paint a compelling story that things are different now.

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Re:GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker... by colonwqbang on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @03:57PM (#25838783)

Your conclusion that

  receiving funding => being popular => winning

is not necessarily incorrect. But it is also possible that it is the other way around:

  being popular => receiving funding => winning

I.e. candidates which are more popular tend to have an easier time receiving funding. Or, it could be some combination. This would also explain the outcomes you point to.

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