The structural problem with the Bores race was that the spending itself became the story before a single vote was cast. A pro-AI super PAC targeted Bores early, which transformed him from an obscure state assemblyman into a symbol — and symbols are harder to elect than candidates. The $27 million proxy war that ended in a draw produced exactly the outcome that money-saturated primaries produce when the money is visible: voter skepticism about who the candidate actually represents . Neither Anthropic nor OpenAI now holds a legislatively aligned ally in New York's 12th — and the loss lands at a moment when both labs are
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