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Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world ·
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The richest 100 donors make up 18% and 53% of US Political Party funds. Their influence has increased significantly since 2008.

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The richest 100 donors make up 18% and 53% of US Political Party funds. Their influence has increased significantly since 2008.

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    Kind of wild that Elon donated $250M alone didn’t even change the trend.

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      What do you mean, taking that this graph is showing data every to year it doubled gop percentage between elections and the 2022-2024 holds a hugely significant portion of that increase.

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      It went from 30 to 50%?

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        Its still been growing at a huge rate before that

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          The growth between 2008 and 2022 was the same as the growth between 2022 and 2024.

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      I’m not sure it counts. Would that be a donation to a political party fund?

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