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What's the super charitable reading of "can tip the scales in almost any election"?

The parent commenter talked about political organizations generally. They didn't specify non-corporate funded lobbying.

Also, it's reductive and I would argue misleading to say AIPAC has a "singular ideology" (as opposed to some sort of umbrella of overlapping ideologies, somewhat akin to groups like the Democratic the Republican parties in the US).