2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhat would a Bernie Sanders presidency do to Citizen's United?
Here is my big "what if"?
Wouldn't it prove to Democrats that an election can be won without a huge war chest? Wouldn't it completely overturn overnight, the idea that you can't beat Republicans without succumbing to accepting bribe money? Couldn't it change the perception that elections aren't for sale? It could even make superpacs have a negative connotation, maybe even on both sides.
Now I know I'm going to be called naive, and possibly worse, but even I, as a Sanders supporter, knows this is a long shot. I'm just asking for you all to imagine this scenario.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Without counting SuperPACs. She is kinda proving it already.
angrychair
(8,733 posts)Only 17% of this candidate's donations come from contributions of $200 or less according to OpenSecrets. Over 63% of contributors have already given the maximum legal donation for the entire campaign cycle, primary and general, to that candidate's campaign. This forces her to always seek new, untapped, donors to maintain funding levels.
Http://www.OpenSecrets.org
Donation information on all candidates ( where the 63% number is sourced from):
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/election-2016-campaign-money-race.html?_r=1
BumRushDaShow
(129,440 posts)You need Congress to pass a law to update McCain-Feingold that hopefully passes a SCOTUS smell test. Meaning you need a new Congress willing to do this and that happens down on the state level, not the top level.
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)And it is something we as the people must do.
Getting Bernie elected will shut down all these damned commercials on TV and force the crooked politicians to support public campaign finance laws.
We'll see a lot of naysayers on this thread who are willfully ignorant of the problems big money presents to a healthy democracy. Just realize they are not progressives, but are conservatives, stuck in the mud with the same old, same old, fuck the little people, politics.
I will be so glad when H> is retired for good and she takes all her supporters with her.