A portrait of too many Congressional districts in 2018: feckless Republican incumbent who refuses to do town halls or meet constituents. District is marked "Safe Republican" by spreadsheet mandarins, so it is not considered contested. A progressive woman wins the primary…
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Outside endorsers demand the candidate cross a threshold of viability, defined as raising six-figure sums. The candidate spends her days in a telephone hell of call time. Wealthy donors love the district, love the story, and pledge $100. Repeat six hours a day...
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In the end, the candidate will lose for lack of money and time in front of voters, and everyone whose spreadsheet had the district marked as "unwinnable" will have their assessment validated. Their reputation as a political analyst will grow.
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This is a political treadmill that lets weak Republican incumbents perennially float toward re-election while keeping the issues with broadest popular support (campaign finance, single-payer health care, monopoly busting, smiting corporations) off the national Democratic agenda
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Our experiment with the Great Slate is to see what happens when you replace the call time with campaigning, and adequately fund it. But there are dozens of these districts! Why is the system so badly broken? And how do we increase the supply of dork money to help them all?
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