One thing I feel my group and many others demonstrated in 2020 was that there's no relationship between political giving to state house races and the outcomes of those elections. In fact, there's some evidence it backfires. Hold on to your wallets with both hands.https://twitter.com/BobbyBigWheel/status/1405601078478098432 …
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I wish I knew the answer! But we have to at least learn from failure. Even trying new stuff at random is better than repeating what doesn't work.https://twitter.com/RSWestmoreland/status/1441835332853452802 …
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Before you make political donations based on emotion, please look at what happened in 2020 with Senate campaigns ($15M left unspent in Maine, for example) and state campaigns in Iowa and Florida, where record fundraising combined with massive losses in places we expected to flip.
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I'm 100% in favor of political giving if you're doing it to feel good. But at least make people charge you for fresh stories, not the same reheated stuff about door knocking, early money, and chronic non-voters all being left of Trotsky if we could just mobilize them.
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If you've ever had your vote determined by an out-of-state college freshman calling you at dinnertime and reading from a prepared script, a bulk text message, or a stranger knocking on your door to talk politics, then by all means support those tactics. But if not, reflect a bit.
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Minneapolis mayor race might be decided by money.
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I confess complete ignorance about the dynamics of mayoral races.
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State/local political candidates *do* need money for e.g. campaign staff, literature, yard signs, etc. I do agree that having national money suddenly pour into state/local elections isn't very helpful. If you want to flip legis, you need to make a it a long-term project.
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I think the nationalization of these state legislative elections is a new development and a tough nut to crack. What do you do when you're running in a district with 9,000 voters and your opponent is not even running against you, but haranguing against Nancy Pelosi and socialism?
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