Has anyone actually ”bought an election”, or is that a popular myth?

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answer:This article references a study that seems to indicate that most of our elections are bought. At least that’s the most logical inference one would draw based on the fact that: “In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule—at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes. When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover … even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.”

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