Hillary stuff was on the front page during the Bernie or Bust movement preceding the convention, I'm inclined to believe that either wasn't what they were doing or that they were bad at it. If you have evidence to suggest that they're astroturfing, that's another matter, but I doubt you do. There's nothing wrong with a campaign making counter-arguments. It's also not wrong for Trump to buy ad space here, I just don't like him and neither does most of reddit.

When you see indications like this: http://sli.mg/ASKFL8, it's hard to see that there is not somewhat of a correlation between the two.

CTR stays away from sites like the_donald (the mod staff are on top of it), but when you see other subreddits where people are copying/pasting the same response over, and over and over again (and they have been a redditor for..... exactly 4 months).... Something is up