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Jennifer Taub
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The worst thing about horse-race coverage of presidential elections is the focus on money. Spending doesn't correlate with victory.

Recall this: "Clinton's unsuccessful campaign ($768 million in spending) outspent Trump's successful one ($398 million) by nearly 2 to 1."

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And: "But Trump benefited immensely from “earned media” — the free TV time he got by virtue of being an unconventional candidate who frequently said outlandish and offensive things."

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And: "Trump received about $5 billion in free media, according to an estimate by media analysis firm MediaQuant, compared with only $3.24 billion for Clinton. Those figures aren't included in OpenSecrets' tally of direct spending."

Link: washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2…

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👀 Wow. Just. Wow. This is a transcript from today’s census case hearing. Parties attended by phone it seems.

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Jennifer Taub
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🇺🇸Here we go. Night 2 of the Democratic Candidates Debate.

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Will eliminate student debt by taxing Wall Street

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Jennifer Taub
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✅Debate Takeaways

(1) Warren and Castro are stars. Booker is strong.

(2) Beto looks ill.

(3) DeBlasio keeps interrupting.

(4) Delaney is annoyingly centrist.He created a straw man suggesting that some candidates want to make private insurance illegal.

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(6) Klobuchar has some good one-liners.

(7) Ryan likes war.

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