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The '''political benefit''' of a suggestion, position, action, event, legislation, characteristic or movement is its tendency to give a relative advantage to one political party, or political side or person.

The '''political benefit''' or political effect of a suggestion, position, action, event, legislation, characteristic or movement is its tendency to give a relative advantage to one political party, or political side or person.

Virtually everything has a '''political benefit''' because almost nothing impacts all sides precisely the same.  For example, a declining economy typically has a political benefit for the party not in control of the [[presidency]].  To take another example, [[gun control]] increases the dependency of all voters on government and thus has a predictable '''political benefit''' for [[leftist]] political parties.

Virtually everything has a '''political benefit''' because almost nothing impacts all sides precisely the same.  For example, a declining economy typically has a political benefit for the party not in control of the [[presidency]].  To take another example, [[gun control]] increases the dependency of all voters on government and thus has a predictable '''political benefit''' for [[leftist]] political parties.