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    "title": "Voting For Moral Purity, Instead Of Policy",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "created": "2014-07-22 01:46:52 UTC",
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        "2014-07-22 01:46:52 UTC"
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>The average voter -- in particular, the average primary voter -- cares a lot about moral purity and expressive politics. So if you disempower the money, you empower the ideological purists who want candidates first and foremost to demonstrate fidelity to shared principles.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Everyone with a party affiliation (formal or informal) thinks this applies only to people of other parties. Bad news: it applies to you too.</p>\n<p>Also, as I have opined in other venues, if you remove the money then you are left only with personal connections. Money is a much more transparent and quantifiable way to see who is influencing whom, than trying to decipher who is connected to whom.</p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-07-21/money-still-fuels-the-political-machine\">Money Still Fuels the Political Machine - Bloomberg View</a>.</p>\n"
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