{"id":2956,"date":"2020-06-20T14:45:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T14:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2956"},"modified":"2020-06-20T14:45:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T14:45:33","slug":"can-you-buy-a-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2956","title":{"rendered":"Can You Buy A Presidential Election?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Bloomberg\u2019s support grew more than three times as fast in markets where he advertised than where he didn\u2019t, and in the week before his disastrous debate performance on Feb. 19, he registered 15 percent support in these markets compared with 6 percent in other markets.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;On its own, Bloomberg\u2019s experiment shows TV advertising can\u2019t swing an entire election. It could not overcome Bloomberg\u2019s lack of charisma or skill as a debater. Bloomberg\u2019s campaign did show, however, that advertising can have a measurable, double-digit impact on the polls and vault a candidate into the top tier. That\u2019s not nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-fivethirtyeight\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"5dPECQ5fTR\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/can-you-buy-a-presidential-election\/\">Can You Buy A Presidential Election?<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Can You Buy A Presidential Election?&#8221; &#8212; FiveThirtyEight\" src=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/can-you-buy-a-presidential-election\/embed\/#?secret=RhiPITfEJA#?secret=5dPECQ5fTR\" data-secret=\"5dPECQ5fTR\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Bloomberg\u2019s support grew more than three times as fast in markets where he advertised than where he didn\u2019t, and in the week before his disastrous debate performance on Feb. 19, he registered 15 percent support in these markets compared with 6 percent in other markets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On its own, Bloomberg\u2019s experiment shows TV advertising can\u2019t swing an entire election. It could not overcome Bloomberg\u2019s lack of charisma or skill as a debater. Bloomberg\u2019s campaign did show, however, that advertising can have a measurable, double-digit impact on the polls and vault a candidate into the top tier. That\u2019s not nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[198,222],"class_list":["post-2956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-elections","tag-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2957,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions\/2957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}