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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seizethecheese • 01/17/2025
This is, of course, because both USA political parties run their own propaganda machines
Because it's a good scapegoat, why take responsibility for losing an election when you can easily shift the blame to someone else?