• Arancello@aussie.zone
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    22 days ago

    The recent kentucky primaries are a clue to how they’re going to take the election. The ‘normal’ primary saw about $150k spent by the winning candidate. The kentucky primary saw over $32 million spent by the winning candidate. We saw Elon flood several electorates with about $300 million. So the consequences of the ‘citizens united ’ case, where your supreme court allowed unlimited spending by ‘corporations’, is reaching its logical conclusion with the mid terms and the 2028 election. Good luck, but I don’t like your chances.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world
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      22 days ago

      There’s a good chance that backfires, and Kentucky ends up with a Democrat senator. They already have a Democrat governor, proving they will move left as a state. I’m not sure you can expect that in Louisiana, though.

      This happened it 2010, when a bunch of Tea Partiers won their primaries, and then lost the general election, flipping a bunch of seats blue, and badly blunting the midterm boost they expected against Obama.

    • Notyou@sopuli.xyz
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      22 days ago

      Good luck, but I don’t like your chances.

      Unfortunately, there is polymarket and you can probably make money on betting on the outcome.