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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 10:24 PM
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# of children available for political indoctrination by parents VERSUS a candidate's $s
Edited on Sat Dec-18-10 10:27 PM by Boojatta
Which matters more in election results? For example, thinking about aggregate behavior of Republicans (to create some perspective) ... would they win more elections by having fewer kids and spending the savings on campaign contributions, or by having more kids and donating less money to political campaigns?

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But I worry that there was another change occurring. Increasingly I found myself spending time with people of means -- law firm partners and investments bankers, hedge fund managers and venture capitalists. As a rule, they were smart, interesting people, knowledgeable about public policy, liberal in their opinions, expecting nothing more than a hearing of their opinions in exchange for their checks. But they reflected, almost uniformly, the perspectives of their class: the top one percent or so of the income scale that can afford to write a $2,000 check to a political candidate.
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1. Come on, guys. We all know who this is.
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