Amid a leadership dispute, Comerica Bank court filing reveals more financial struggles for the Michigan Republican Party just weeks before the presidential primary.
You know it’s pretty wild just how little money actually turns elections in the grand scheme of things, it’s just that national interest groups spend so much in totality that we hear constantly about big money in politics, when really the amount of money it takes to dwarf a candidate’s usual war chest is something you’re not even breaching into the 1% before someone who feels reasonably sure they could win might start seeing the sum as worth gambling in the “don’t bet what you can’t afford to lose” sense.
We just see so many big numbers because of the high profile races where people are dropping money like it’s a strip club out of spite for a hated incumbent or to troll the spite donors by keeping the incumbent funded enough to float.
You know it’s pretty wild just how little money actually turns elections in the grand scheme of things, it’s just that national interest groups spend so much in totality that we hear constantly about big money in politics, when really the amount of money it takes to dwarf a candidate’s usual war chest is something you’re not even breaching into the 1% before someone who feels reasonably sure they could win might start seeing the sum as worth gambling in the “don’t bet what you can’t afford to lose” sense.
We just see so many big numbers because of the high profile races where people are dropping money like it’s a strip club out of spite for a hated incumbent or to troll the spite donors by keeping the incumbent funded enough to float.