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Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think. The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy. (act.represent.us)
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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

the rich got their preferred outcome 53 percent of the time and the middle class got what they wanted 47 percent of the time.

Okay, but there's a large third traunch of voters you're neglecting

[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

The poors aren't people silly!

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They were also neglected by the people who made the study the link in the post is talking about, so the study is still bunk and we should perhaps do another one

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