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7. I Know This Will Sound Naive But The Citizens United Money Spent.......

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Original post)

Tue Jun 5, 2012, 11:15 PM

Jun 2012

did it buy advertisements and commercial time and it is the power of the ad that got Walker the win OR did they actually use the money to buy people's votes? Did they pay people to vote for Walker?

What I'm trying to get to is how has all this money influenced this election?

Is it just the power of advertising? Did they pay people money to vote for Walker? Was it the shennanigans that caused confusion and kept people at home (like the robo calls telling them they didn't have to vote if they signed the recall petitions).

We all saw what went down in Wisconsin. We saw the protests. We saw how the people got the recall petition to get to this recall. We saw the disgust in the people that got suckered in to voting for Walker in the first place - with his bait and switch campaign.

How could money influence those people that did all these things to vote against their best interests? I just don't get it? I don't get it?

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Been saying it for the last few hours - but I will repeat it. Citizens United. [View all] NRaleighLiberal Jun 2012 OP

Yep. Welcome to the new face of elections. pinto Jun 2012 #1

Nothing will change. This is our future. Get ready for the one-party state. kestrel91316 Jun 2012 #2

It will be a totalitarian country forcing millions upon millions of RKP5637 Jun 2012 #6

It's what Americans WANT. I say let them have it. kestrel91316 Jun 2012 #10

That's my line too, anymore. More than once I've said that, it's RKP5637 Jun 2012 #11

Money talks and has tremendous power, the rest of us just talk. With RKP5637 Jun 2012 #3

and millions of those millions have no idea of this, I suspect. NRaleighLiberal Jun 2012 #4

Yeah, I really think so. DU is a unique place, millions of RKP5637 Jun 2012 #8

Given justices' ages, if Romney wins in the fall, CU majority will be installed for a generation Adenoid_Hynkel Jun 2012 #5

I Know This Will Sound Naive But The Citizens United Money Spent....... global1 Jun 2012 #7

Advertising works. It is why so much money is spent on them. I worked in Pharma for years - NRaleighLiberal Jun 2012 #9