"The Sanders campaign, however, broke dramatically with over a century of U.S. political history. Extensive political science research, notably the work of Thomas Ferguson, has shown convincingly that elections are pretty much bought. For example, campaign spending alone is a remarkably good predictor of electoral success, and support of corporate power and private wealth is a virtual prerequisite even for participation in the political arena."
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"Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections."
"There was great anxiety about Russian intervention in the recent German elections, perhaps contributing to the frightening surge of support for the right-wing nationalist, if not neo-fascist, "Alternative for Germany"."
"You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made it doesn't come from elections."
"We have free elections. Everybody can vote, we fought for that, we brag about that and we know we're going to have a winner and we're going to have a loser."
"DNI director [James] Clapper said as much many, many times, that there is no evidence that any outcome of the election was changed."
"Kink isn't a crime; conspiring with a foreign power to commit espionage, fix election is. Stay focused."
"There's been a lot of study of the demographics this year that could decide this election [2016] and a lot of money being spent targeting voters who could tip the vote."