IRS won't require NRA, other groups to disclose donors to tax officials

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(07-25-2018, 03:19 PM)PhilHos Wrote: We're talking about changing people's beliefs. And those are 2nd only to religious beliefs in terms of convincing people their current beleifs are "wrong".

So, sure, maybe they're able to convince a few more people with a significant increase in their budget, but i still don't see how that equates to a foreign country influencing our elections.

If I remember correctly Trump won the swing states by around 80,000 votes.  Total.

It's just a simple numbers game.  Get your message that (in this case) Clinton is a liar and Trump cares about the little guy, that Clinton is untrustworthy because the FBI is investigating her and Trump is going to fight for your rights, that the Clinton Foundation is dirty because they receive funds from bad countries and the Trump Foundation is doing amazing things, the list goes on, get that message to the maximum amount of people and you have a better chance of getting people who never voted to vote.   You increase the odds of swinging a voter who didn't like Trump but now thinks he is more trustworthy than Clinton.  

You only need a few in every city to combine and make a large amount in the state.

That doesn't mean that the extra money from Russia was the tipping point.  that just means it helped the NRA get their message to even more people.