Comments on: Vote Buying? http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/09/vote_buying.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Matt http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/09/vote_buying.html/comment-page-1#comment-3665 Matt Thu, 07 Sep 2006 08:01:00 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/09/vote_buying.html#comment-3665 <p>It should be, but it almost certainly wouldn't be. Legalistically, this certainly is equivalent to that. But frankly it smells way more like a publicity stunt (sounds like it was a successful one too, given the way it's getting free media coverage) than an attempt to buy votes.</p> <p>Compare the number of people who actually got cheap gas to the number of people who heard about the stunt and will remember it, but didn't actually make it to the station (in many cases because they figured, almost certainly correctly, that it'd be mobbed). Think about which group is larger, and thus more likely to be the target audience.</p> It should be, but it almost certainly wouldn’t be. Legalistically, this certainly is equivalent to that. But frankly it smells way more like a publicity stunt (sounds like it was a successful one too, given the way it’s getting free media coverage) than an attempt to buy votes.

Compare the number of people who actually got cheap gas to the number of people who heard about the stunt and will remember it, but didn’t actually make it to the station (in many cases because they figured, almost certainly correctly, that it’d be mobbed). Think about which group is larger, and thus more likely to be the target audience.

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