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buddhistdudetoday at 5:06 PM2 repliesview on HN

"The cryptocurrency industry super PACs dumped $14.2 million into the Illinois primaries. 90% of that – $12.8 million – was wasted, in that it went to opposing Democratic candidates who won their primaries"

I read that as them having mistakenly sent the cryptos to the "opposing candidate"


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Quinnertoday at 5:22 PM

The quote is the wrong way of looking at this. The typical rate of successful primary challenges is only 3%. If you take that to 10% its an enormous success, incumbents will say "if I oppose crypto then I triple my odds of losing in a primary, better not do that."

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KellyCriteriontoday at 6:14 PM

..could be a built-in feature of the matter?

:-D