True or false, as long as money determines election outcomes it is not a democracy?

true or falseTrue or false, as long as money determines election outcomes it is not a democracy?
What proof do you have that elections are determined by money? Or is this something you have just heard people say repeatedly?True or false, as long as money determines election outcomes it is not a democracy?
True true true. However, the public will forever continue to live under a facade of belief that democracy is based on votes/opinions alone.
true
Republicans outspent democrats and they LOST.
true if it comes down to money


look at what happened to get bush in office


they bought the votes
It's only a democracy on paper. We actually are a republic. Money has no bearing although I don't deny that it is used to steer elections.
False. As long as the citizenry continiue to elect pseudo-representatives, and the will of the majority is ignored, the United States will continue to be a pseudo-democracy at best. I call it the Americanized version of democracy: where the minority rich and elite govern the majority working class and poor. With the dual party lie, the complacency of the formerly-free US media, the USG has usurped the Constitution and run things as if this country were their personal piggy bank.
True.
Well, if money spent was the only deciding factor, the Democrats wouldn't have won so many seats in this last election; the Republicans consistantly spent more money in almost every race.


I won't say it's not a factor; you can get your message out much easier if you have more cash, but the message matters, too.
True, if money determines it.





But if you say the US, its a little bit of both.


Of course you need lots of money to run, but its not ALWAYS the one who spends the most wins.





This election proved it....The Republicans spent much more in several states, ie NJ, PA, WV, and still lost.
We aren't a democracy anyway! We are a Representative Republic!! DUH!!!





If we were a Democracy Bush would never have had a seat in the white house since he lost the popular vote in the 2000 election!





Our forefathers did not want a democracy! They wanted to protect the minority from the majority!
True - and the money corrpution is rampant on BOTH sides of the aisle. I can't stand to see partisan whining about how bad the other side is - neither party has a corner on the market when it comes to greed and stupidity.