Thursday, November 10, 2022

Election Questions


Election Questions

A rich guy named Caruso running for mayor in LA spent $100 Million of his own money on the campaign.

Money is important to politics. A lot is probably given without the expectation of a return. But a lot isn't.

Half the economy is governmental. So the government itself has an interest in elections as do its commercial partners.

This election had a very large youth vote so it is likely that the obviously unconstitutional and economically dangerous college loan forgiveness program was a positive to that group, not the cynical constitutional and economic error it really was.

Pre-election day voting is a big advantage to well-funded campaigns. Campaigns with less money must hold their advertising until late in the campaign; voters in early-voting states vote before they see those ads.

A survey of voters revealed that the vast majority of them believe the overturning of Roe was an outlawing of abortion rather than what it was, the realignment of constitutional responsibility. That may have been a factor in the mid-terms.

Biden said in his presser that he would change nothing of what he had done or was doing. There's a lot in that statement. One thing is a lack of appreciation of supply and demand. In this he may be sharing a deep misunderstanding of how things work with the young people who voted.


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