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 normally hate to pee on other people's fundraising, but I think it's important to make new mistakes rather than repeating old ones. And we've seen in state after state that pouring any amount of national money into state legislative races just doesn't work.
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The political spending cycle is spinning out of control, and as everyone runs out of ways to spend money upballot, the money is moving downballot. At the same time, those races have become nationalized (and therefore tethered to political identities local spending can't shift)
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I can promise you on bended knee that there will not be a single political candidate above the level of dogcatcher whose campaign will fail for lack of money in 2021 or 2022. All your donation will do is feed a growing chain of parasites that dead-ends in Facebook profits.
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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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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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