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From: Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com>
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Subject: Re: Awfully quiet in here...
Date: 9 Nov 2024 15:49:35 GMT
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On 2024-11-08, Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:
> Chris Buckley  <alan@sabir.com> wrote:
>>You have to remember that we grow old. The status quo has changed. The
>>Democrats have been the party of the wealthy for the past 20 years and it
>>grows worse.  Many more billionaires supported Biden in 2020 and Harris
>>this year than supported Trump. The growing discrepency is alarming.  The
>>Democrats spent 60% more than the Republicans since Super Tuesday
>>(over 1.6 billion compared to under 1 billion (NPR)).
>
> The Democrats are the party of the wealthy, yes.  But the Republicans are
> also the party of the wealthy, in spite of the current grassroots support.
> Compare the funding for Trump's first campaign, which was greatly supported
> by small donors, with the funding for this one, which was mostly supported
> by larger donations.
> --scott

I agree that the wealthy have an outsized impact on both major parties.  It's
unfortunate and it becomes even more of a problem if it's an unbalanced
impact. I believe in checks and balances but we're losing the ability of
the two parties to compete financially.

Trump's small donors have indeed decreased over his campaigns. Harris did
very well this year with small donors; her percentage small donors was higher
than Obama's, Clinton's, Biden's and Trumps 2024's, though of course much
lower than Trump 2016's and even Trump 2020's.

But her not-small-donors amount still was well over twice that of Trump's
not-small-donors this year. Money talks as they say, and Democrats
have much more election money than Republicans.

Chris