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I saw it mentioned in a piece I read about how donations to Biden's campaign eclipsed everyone else's. I don't pay attention except that campaign donations are a more accurate indicator than polls in getting an idea of who's ahead. I certainly am not losing sleep over Kennedy or Trump.

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OK, that explains a lot. You are probably thinking of this chart from Popular Information: https://popular.info/p/gop-donors-fuel-rfk-jrs-presidential

These represent the percentage of donors who gave the maximum amount individual donors can contribute ($6,600.00) to Junior's campaign. The total number of donors represented is 96, 19 of whom "have a history of consistently supporting Democratic candidates."

That's right, a whopping 19 people.

This is another galaxy far away from "20% of Democrats support Junior."

I'm sorry to harp on this, but if even those of us on the center/left insist on repeating numbers we heard somewhere and misrepresenting, however unintentionally, how much (or, in this case, how little) they mean, we only make the disinformation problem worse.

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Yes, that's where I saw it.

Jesus, we're all just commenters here. Where the heck do you think we should get our information if not from things we read?

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