There’s a point when revenues start to decline steeply -2015. You know, the point where one would expect pay to play to increase if that’s what it was about. Similarly revenues stagnated when she ran in ‘08 which again is strange if it’s about pay to play. Now if revenues had increased until the end of ‘16 and then started dropping it would be more interesting. But that not what happened - revenues had already been declining steeply for two years by that point. Amusingly IBD uses the words skyrocketing and massively declines when it suits them but is entirely silent about the steep declines that started in 2015.

Investors Business Daily is the rag that claimed that if Stephen Hawking were British the NHS would just have deemed his life worthless and let him die. Oops. Very credible source you used there.

Clinton was elected in 1992 and 1996. The effect discussed is that on Gore, his Vice President, running in 2000.