<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheRealDunkirk</author><text>$250K is lunch money for Larry Ellison. The _truly_ sad thing about American democracy isn&amp;#x27;t that the government can be bought; it&amp;#x27;s that it can be bought so cheaply, relatively speaking. If you want the government to hand over a whole new business line to one of the already-largest and most-successful businesses in the world, you&amp;#x27;d think they&amp;#x27;d have to drop an amount of money they might actually notice.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Oracle founder donated $250k to Graham PAC in final days of TikTok deal</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/17/21520356/oracle-tiktok-larry-ellison-lindsey-graham-super-pac-donation-jaime-harrison</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>curiousgal</author><text>Blatant legal corruption asside (I mean it is the U.S., am I right?), I am more astonished by this tidbit&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Still, Harrison raised $57 million in the third quarter of this year, dwarfing Graham’s $28 million.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;How the fuck do you raise 28 or 57 million dollars in 3 months and are state election campaigns &lt;i&gt;THAT&lt;/i&gt; expensive??</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Oracle founder donated $250k to Graham PAC in final days of TikTok deal</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/17/21520356/oracle-tiktok-larry-ellison-lindsey-graham-super-pac-donation-jaime-harrison</url></story>