Huge thanks to @dfabu, who made the maximum $2,700 donation to all 13 Great Slate candidates—so $31,500 in total. it's like buying a new car, except it helps save the country. Pushing change through in November will hurt our bank accounts, but it will also be worth it.
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Those are two of the races on the Great Slate now. The other two are ones that also made a dent in their opponent in 2018, and we know that candidates tend to do better on the second go. But none of that is a guarantee of winning. Politics is hard, and these are marginal races.
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What we are trying to do in 2020 is help those campaigns capture and turn out votes in states where there is a competitive Senate race. Even if J.D. or Diane don't win, if they can bring 10,000 additional voters out, that might be enough to tip the very tight Senate seat.
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I would dump the Great Slate if someone else like DCCC had a clearly superior funding strategy but no one does. Elections are hard to predict. Funding experiments/trial-and-error gives best chance of finding the best strategy.
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The Great Slate is a pretty cost-effective experiment by political standards. Less than $5M gained a House seat in 2018 and nearly got a second; I think these experiments are worth running.
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Even the losing Great Slate campaigns led people to volunteer for the 1st time. They will form corps of volunteers and organizers for future state & federal campaigns in places the Dems sorely need them. Our money wasn't just wasted.
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