A number of people have asked me where money is best spent on elections, or whether it's better to give to the Great Slate (Federal races) or State Slate (state house races in key states). Working on a longer-form answer to this, but the basic idea is nobody can really tell
-
-
Throughout this whole thing I've been inspired by what I saw in Hong Kong last fall. For a municipal election, they registered 386K new voters (out of 7M population), got 71% turnout, contested every seat, and won in a blowout because they knew it was their last, best chance.
Show this thread -
Our election has way more at stake, so we should also be making an extraordinary effort—and a lot of people are! The problem is our campaign funding system is so convoluted a lot of people don't know how to help effectively. So I'll write about that longer-form and link here.
Show this thread -
Like on the one hand, this is a really cool 50-state guide to US elections, put together by an expert. On the other hand, that expert literally had to eat a bug on national TV in 2016 because he was so wrong about the outcome. We're all flying blind here. https://election.princeton.edu/2020/09/01/new-pec-feature-our-fifty-state-guide-to-the-2020-election/ …
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
Bloomberg could have fixed a lot of this but he doesn't want that outcome
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.