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CatMor

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14. Everyone running are in a way buying the presidency ...
Mon Feb 17, 2020, 11:56 AM
Feb 2020

all with other peoples money except Bloomberg who is using his own money.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden

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Focus, Bernie, focus. TheCowsCameHome Feb 2020 #1
Satchel Paige: "Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." George II Feb 2020 #6
Bloomberg hasn't paid for a single vote. George II Feb 2020 #2
Bernie's not wrong. HerbChestnut Feb 2020 #3
What has he bought? George II Feb 2020 #7
Quite a bit. HerbChestnut Feb 2020 #8
So those of us who like him have "bought"? TheCowsCameHome Feb 2020 #11
He's paying an entire national campaign staff, not buying them. Sanders pays his campaign staff.... George II Feb 2020 #13
Spending your own money on ads is not "buying the presidency"; promising freebies and giveaways LongtimeAZDem Feb 2020 #4
This! Rorey Feb 2020 #15
+1 Green Line Feb 2020 #23
It's going to take millions of dollars of ads to defeat trump onenote Feb 2020 #5
Plutocracy jalan48 Feb 2020 #9
Over $100 Million was spent in Iowa alone, the campaign which Bloomberg sat out, and ... SWBTATTReg Feb 2020 #10
promising potential voters "free ....whatever" is also buying the election Fresh_Start Feb 2020 #12
Everyone running are in a way buying the presidency ... CatMor Feb 2020 #14
I have a problem with all the ad-buying anyway Bayard Feb 2020 #16
Yes. AKA Facebook, actual Russian interference techniques, etc. /nt jmg257 Feb 2020 #17
Most people are easily swayed by advertising gollygee Feb 2020 #18
oh the hypocricy it berns lol. like bernie is not spending millions nt msongs Feb 2020 #19
Isn't that the truth? Vivienne235729 Feb 2020 #21
Says the guy who's been non stop campaigning for 5 years. Says the guy who was annoyed having UniteFightBack Feb 2020 #20
"Sanders spent a whopping $50 million in the last three months of 2019" LongtimeAZDem Feb 2020 #22
Bernie is correct jcgoldie Feb 2020 #24
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