alt Hacker NewsIt is mind blowing to me that this fact is not widely understood. A mountain was made out of a molehill. $4B was spent in 2016. $12B in 2024. Yet $100,000 somehow is believed to have made any difference whatsoever. Literally 0.0025% of the total in 2016.
*Source: https://www.emarketer.com/content/political-ad-spend-nearly-...
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lossolo • yesterday at 11:51 PM
Because it's a good scapegoat, why take responsibility for losing an election when you can easily shift the blame to someone else?
This is, of course, because both USA political parties run their own propaganda machines