{"id":2771,"date":"2020-02-24T11:10:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T16:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2020-02-24T11:10:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T16:10:26","slug":"money-cant-buy-me-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/02\/24\/money-cant-buy-me-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Money Can&#8217;t Buy Me Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=srwxJUXPHvE\">The Beatles, of course<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Buying the Farm<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Pete Buttigieg made the comment in the Las Vegas debates.&nbsp;&nbsp;After \u201cSuper Tuesday,\u201d he said, Democrats may be faced with a choice between Mike who wants to \u201cbuy the party,\u201d and Bernie that wants to \u201cburn it down\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;Mike Bloomberg has spent close to half a billion dollars to win the Democratic nomination.&nbsp;&nbsp;That\u2019s more than all the other candidates, Democratic or Republican, have spent in this election cycle.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No one will \u201cbuy\u201d Mike Bloomberg with campaign contributions.&nbsp;&nbsp;He\u2019s bought himself, and he\u2019s trying to buy the rest of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rest of the Democratic candidates depend on others to raise the funds to finance their campaigns.&nbsp;&nbsp;Some, like Bernie and Elizabeth Warren, claim that they only take individual small contributions.&nbsp;&nbsp;They try to hammer other candidates, notably Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg, for taking donations from \u201cbillionaires,\u201d particularly billionaires in \u201cwine caves\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But no \u201cbillionaire\u201d is putting their \u201cbillions\u201d into anyone\u2019s campaign, other than Mayor Bloomberg and Tom Steyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On March 3<sup>rd<\/sup>&nbsp;we will get to see if Bloomberg\u2019s millions can \u201cbuy\u201d an election.&nbsp;&nbsp;That will be the first time his name will be on the ballot, and since it\u2019s \u201cSuper Tuesday\u201d with seventeen state primaries up for grabs, we\u2019ll see.&nbsp;&nbsp;Bloomberg has placed a huge bet, close to $400 million, that he can change the Democratic narrative.&nbsp;&nbsp;One day will tell the tale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will get a \u201cfield test\u201d of the money strategy this Saturday in South Carolina.&nbsp;&nbsp;Tom Steyer has spent $20 million in that state alone to try to make a dent.&nbsp;&nbsp;Steyer is no Bloomberg, but we should get some idea of the impact of mass spending.&nbsp;We will see if the adage \u201cif a little money is good, a lot of money is better\u201d is valid when it comes to votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Amounts are Relative<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Money has always been important in politics.&nbsp;&nbsp;In the early 1980\u2019s I was a twenty-four year old campaign manager trying to get my candidate elected to city council. 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The problem we (the candidate and I) had was when over half of your campaign funds comes from a single source, how does that person NOT control what you do?&nbsp;&nbsp;We never got the money.&nbsp;&nbsp;We didn\u2019t win the council race either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In one of our famous \u201cfamily\u201d discussions this weekend, we talked about how influential money was.&nbsp;&nbsp;We were talking about what happens if there is a \u201cbrokered\u201d Democratic Convention, with no one candidate having a majority of the votes.&nbsp;&nbsp;The younger end of the table was convinced that the \u201cmoney\u201d would step in and stop Bernie Sanders.&nbsp;&nbsp;They went on to say that when it happened, it would fragment the party so badly that it would guarantee Trump\u2019s re-election.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Berne Down the House<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>If Bernie doesn\u2019t have a majority going into the convention, it would surprise me if other candidates don\u2019t try to take the nomination.&nbsp;&nbsp;After all, that is the process:&nbsp;&nbsp;there is a \u201cfirst\u201d vote, with all delegates locked into their pledge for their candidate, and the so-called \u201csuper delegates\u201d not allowed to vote at all.&nbsp;&nbsp;If a candidate wins a majority on that first vote, then they are the Democratic nominee for President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if one candidate doesn\u2019t win, then the rules change.&nbsp;&nbsp;Delegates are allowed to move from their \u201cpledged\u201d position and choose a different candidate.&nbsp;&nbsp;The \u201csuper delegates,\u201d who represent the structure of the Democratic Party, can now add their votes, approximately another 500 our of the over 4000 delegate voters.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is called a brokered convention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Back Before Elvis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The last time that happened was 1952.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Democrats were replacing Harry Truman, who chose not to run for a third term as President.&nbsp;&nbsp;Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson was able to grasp the nomination from Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver.&nbsp;&nbsp;Kefauver led the first ballot, but Stevenson\u2019s candidacy took hold on the second vote.&nbsp;&nbsp;It took three votes for him to reach the majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Republicans had a brokered convention as well that year.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;While General Eisenhower ended up with the nomination, he wasn\u2019t even the only General in the running.&nbsp;&nbsp;Douglas MacArthur was there, as well as Senator Bob Taft from Ohio.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Eisenhower was close on the first vote, and after some wheeling and dealing, was declared the unanimous choice before a second vote was officially taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But 1952 was a long time ago.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether a political party could survive the results of a brokered convention today is questionable.&nbsp;&nbsp;But if Bernie doesn\u2019t win the Democratic nomination outright, the machinations against him won\u2019t necessarily be about money.&nbsp;&nbsp;There are many older and more institutional Democrats who are afraid of the electoral outcome of running an avowed socialist for President.&nbsp;&nbsp;For Bernie to win the Presidency, he\u2019s going to have to show that his \u201crevolution\u201d, all of the new votes he has for the party, are there.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The way for him to do that is to win the nomination outright.&nbsp;&nbsp;If he can\u2019t then he lends credence to the argument that a Sanders candidacy will lead the Democrats to another historic outcome:&nbsp;&nbsp;the McGovern debacle of 1972.&nbsp;&nbsp;Bernie needs to prove \u201cthe revolution\u201d on Super Tuesday, or Democrats face a fractious spring.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>For great information on campaign donations \u2013 check this site \u2013<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/summary.php?id=D000030736\">Open Secrets \u2013 Contribution Information<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beatles, of course Buying the Farm Pete Buttigieg made the comment in the Las Vegas debates.&nbsp;&nbsp;After \u201cSuper Tuesday,\u201d he said, Democrats may be faced with a choice between Mike who wants to \u201cbuy the party,\u201d and Bernie that wants to \u201cburn it down\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;Mike Bloomberg has spent close to half a billion dollars to win &hellip; 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