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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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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seems like we could do our old mistake and something else if it has no effect
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What if we funded preferred Republican candidates instead. People who could easily be moderate democrats if running in more blue districts.
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I personally don't think funding has any relationship to performance one way or the other, or in either party. But I think your idea has value, too—we want people like Bacon or Katko to stay in office.
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I am here for the random mode! Tell us more.
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Is funding JD Scholten’s work a more effective use of my political dollar, do you think?
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I honestly don't know. I hope his work is very effective.
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