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Originally Posted by SebC
Did they win because of the money, or did they attract the money because they were able to win?
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Well in your first post you state I’m glad they spent so much money because it got us a progressive council. So obviously you believe that money gave them an advantage. The two PAC slates winning and I believe going 1/2 in every race (I’m not 100% sure on the last one) shows that the progressive candidates and conservative candidates not selected by the PACs did not have a chance.
Now did the PACs pick electable candidates, absolutely. However it’s still the PAC picking which candidate is the most electable progressive rather than individuals picking between the most electable progressive. Now this does reduce vote splitting which is good but instead of being the most electable candidate you now need to be the most electable progressive or most electable conservative. Candidates in between no longer have a chance. As this process is carried out in more elections we will see a greater distance between the sets of candidates which overall isn’t good.
In the end if we are going to have party politics at least we should have primaries to narrow down the field.