"That translates to $1,124 per person who showed up to vote."
Ugh, imagine if we spent $1,124 on every child living below the poverty line instead
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Yes, but how does that help Republicans?
They willingly decided not to feed children school lunches. Do you think they really give a shit?
I'd like to live in a world where that doesn't matter
Super pacs need to get the fuck out of politics.
It's asinine that dark money gets to buy adds for their chosen candidates without saying who the dark money is coming from.
It's also asinine that corporations literally get to bribe politicians, because they write a book, then the super pacs buy up all the books.
What a complete waste of money for a foregone conclusion.
Gross.
Daaaamn. That's a low population state too. I can't even imagine how fucking constant they must be...
What a waste of money. Sickening.
Kumon is about 1500 Dollars per student per year. For this amount of money 80,000 students could have been enrolled. I am so so glad we have our priorities correct. We could have given every single kid in a small city after-school tutoring twice a week for 12 months instead of this fucking garbage
As an Iowan, I'm glad that's over, the number of phone calls per days was actually getting totally ridiculous.
If you cuss and scream at them you usually don't get a callback.