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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Replying to @Pinboard
Hi! I was a big donor to the Great Slate in 2018. None of the candidates won. I’m considering donating again, but I’m worried that I wasted my money last time. What has changed? Why, for example, will Galvin succeed in 2020 after losing by seven points to Young in 2018?
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Hey! Thanks for donating back then. Let me answer in a couple of tweets. First off, we did put a candidate in office, Jared Golden. That gives us a better track record than Justice Democrats, People's House Project, or any other progressive effort. We also swung IA-4 by 20 points
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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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The Senate races will be won or lost in those districts, since they have the few swing votes. The Senate candidates themselves don't have an operation up and running yet, but these campaigns do, and so I see funding them as a good complementary strategy.
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To give you one example, the Iowa caucuses registered some 10,000 new Democratic voters in northwest Iowa, mostly around Ames. The organization best capable of whipping those votes to get them to the polls is J.D. Scholten's campaign, which has a field presence there.
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So this is an effort on the margins, to squeeze out some thousands of extra votes. I can't promise victory this year, either. The only thing I can promise you is that money in these places doesn't go to waste, and that it wasn't wasted in 2018, either. I hope that answer helps!
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