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brooklynite

(94,571 posts)
Fri Jul 30, 2021, 06:06 PM Jul 2021

Do you hate large dollar political fundraisers? And do you hate all the fundraising emails you get?

Pick one.

Campaigns CAN largely work on frequent micro-contributions; but the only way to generate them, in aggregate, is by constant appeals to a candidate's supporters with all the irritating "we're about to lose"/"we have a critical deadline" messages you're tired of. Absent a change to the Constitution to make political campaigns publicly funded, those are the two models we have to work with.

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