alt Hacker News> If you start looking at "candidate spend" vs "results" you get metrics that .... people don't want to talk about
Not if you correct for incumbency. The thing people want to talk about is that money buys elections.
> If you start looking at "candidate spend" vs "results" you get metrics that .... people don't want to talk about
Not if you correct for incumbency. The thing people want to talk about is that money buys elections.
The whole point is that “money buys elections” is what’s under discussion - is it true? Does it, or does the money spent, even if it correlates, not cause?