I don't ask this as a hypothetical. You see,
a company owned by the Romney family may own the machine on which you cast your ballot:
Through a closely held equity fund called Solamere, Mitt Romney and his wife, son and brother are major investors in an investment firm called H.I.G. Capital. H.I.G. in turn holds a majority share and three out of
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You're speaking of confirmation bias. People who've already decided they hate president X, have found yet another excuse to hate president X. That won't change the way they vote, so they're irrelevant. That's my point.
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Follow the money. How do you extract more money out of your base of loyal supporters? As they've already given $X to their campaign. How do you stop opponent from receiving more $$$ from their base?
It's a matter of flinging dirt. Doesn't matter if it sticks or not. It's more about the shear amount of it landing in the general direction of opponent.
Even in this community T_P a bunch of supposedly otherwise politically savvy junkies will occasionally pick up and pass some of this dirt. Some of us will get all wide-eyed and go "ohhh" or "aahhhh" Somebody else will be persuaded not to write a cheque to their favourite campaign, and maybe somebody else will.
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Because some people might think "my voice doesn't matter, candidate X will win anyway", so parties tend to do tremendous efforts to rile up their base and make them actually vote, not just support them.
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