system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How does raising millions of dollars during a political campaign directly correlate to that candidate getting elected?
gpt
The more money you raise, the more money you can invest in putting (high quality) political ads on TV, the more you can invest in other media appearances, the more you can invest in contacting people by telephone to get them to vote, basically, all ways of getting your name and message out there. And that is what gets you elected. Most people decide who they are going to vote for based on what they see on TV. They don't actively try and hunt down every political candidate's viewpoints and compare them. They let the media feed them some stuff and decide based on that.