There is evidence that it doesn't always guarantee an outcome. But I have to tell you that most of us around this table, heading into a campaign, would prefer to have lots of money rather than no money in our bank accounts. So money counts.
The number of people who declined a ballot was surprising. You don't seem to agree. I was thrown when you said that 20,000 people declined it. Do you think they didn't have an interest? Or was it that they didn't know enough and therefore weren't going to cast an uneducated ballot? Or was it some variation of those?