Does More Campaign Money Actually Buy More Votes: An InvestigationLast Tuesday, Terry McAuliffe used to be elected governor of Virginia by means of an awfully small margin. As Politico reported on Monday, McAuliffe had a powerful ally in that battle: California businessman Tom Steyer. Steyer's major precedence is the setting, as The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza mentioned in a have a look at Obama's second term priorities in September. In Virginia, the Steyer-funded NextGen interested by areas of the state prone to sea level upward push kind climate trade to oppose Republican Ken Cuccinelli, a local weather exchange denier.