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by beachy 2526 days ago
Actually there are 791 presidential candidates according to https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_candidates,_2020#Declar....

Yes, most of them are probably not "real candidates", but Google would be in even hotter water if they tried to predetermine who was and who wasn't a real candidate.

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Google spent 3.5 million lobbying so far this year and 21 million last year. They know exactly who is a "real candidate"[0]

[0]https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00006782...

It's not up to them to decide who's real or not. It also opens up an easy to exploit situation where I can just claim to be running for president and I get some whitelist applied and could do some nefarious things.