Andrea Salinas got 36% of the vote while Carrick Flynn got 18%. I think it’s pretty clear, that Flynn would have gotten more votes if he wouldn’t have been perceived by the press as being funded by ill-intentioned corporate money.
Whether that would have been enough to get double the amount of votes is unclear but I don’t think the available data suggest that this isn’t in the realm of what would have been possible.
Well to be fair I didn’t say it was impossible, just that the outcome probably had more to do with the fundamentals of the race. It may have had a negative effect yes, but plenty of candidates win in races despite being supported by all kinds of PACs and having negative press about it.
Having more connections within the state for support and donations and highlighting those would have helped blunt negative attacks about PAC funding, for example.
Andrea Salinas got 36% of the vote while Carrick Flynn got 18%. I think it’s pretty clear, that Flynn would have gotten more votes if he wouldn’t have been perceived by the press as being funded by ill-intentioned corporate money.
Whether that would have been enough to get double the amount of votes is unclear but I don’t think the available data suggest that this isn’t in the realm of what would have been possible.
Well to be fair I didn’t say it was impossible, just that the outcome probably had more to do with the fundamentals of the race. It may have had a negative effect yes, but plenty of candidates win in races despite being supported by all kinds of PACs and having negative press about it.
Having more connections within the state for support and donations and highlighting those would have helped blunt negative attacks about PAC funding, for example.