I know I'm going out on a limb to give [strike]folk[/strike] ordinary American voters the benefit of the doubt here.
NullPointer, politicians spend that much but that includes a lot of campaigning and interaction with the public - town halls, rallies, etc. People get to ask questions, watch debates, watch interviews, etc. I don't think you can make an equivalency argument between all that campaigning and mere twitter trolling; but I get your point.
Argumentum ad ignorantiam? No thanks.
You still can't directly prove that causal pathway - see Russian troll tweet, become influenced by said tweet, vote for Trump because of tweet. Only way you'd know this is if someone self reports that. And correlation /= causation - they are two totally different things. Anyways, we prob shouldn't clog the thread on that one small disagreement. If you want to keep discussing it we can def do so over PM. Because
LL_Decitrig is right, this is immaterial.
You're absolutely right. This discussion about effectiveness of the trolling is basically just a side bar between me and
III-V. So I'll just end it here.
EDIT: Revised for clarity and formatting.
EDIT 2: More clarity