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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Sep 2018

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Dave Wasserman

      cc: @Pinboard who’s been pointing out many such underfunded races on the Dem side. Often a race already saturated in cash can raise many million $, but a winnable one that needs $100,000 to get the message out often cannot raise much!https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1045098287240531968 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Dave WassermanVerified account @Redistrict
      An extra few million $$ spent on one cash-saturated race would probably be better spent polling dozens of long-shot districts and identifying a handful w/ potential. Every cycle, a handful of races w/ no $$ are squeakers, and many multi-million $$ affairs are blowouts.
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Sep 2018

      Maybe I'm too cynical—though I'd prefer the term wide-eyed realist—but outcome-wise, I'm not sure how people expected anything else from today. Too much attention on consequences of elections (and electoral infrastructure) and *still* not enough attention to the election itself.

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Sep 2018

      Today, I keep going back to how positing protest and elections as "one-or-the-other" has disempowered movements. Nothing is power like power. Can people who see failing institutions also realize that it'll get worse if they're abandoned, rather than (re)captured and fixed? Tough.

      2 replies 36 retweets 81 likes
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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Sep 2018

      A big part of the current dynamic is elite failure—across the board, across the political spectrum. It's been accelarating, but it's also been going on for decades. They aren't even stepping up to do what's rational for them to keep their current power stable.

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Sep 2018

      One might be tempted to be cynical about elite failure—but we're all on the boat. The pearl-clutching won't solve a thing, but neither will getting lost in the cynicism or glee in the failure. Strategic, long-term political movements are hard, but not sure anything else works.

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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Sep 2018

      I wrote a book on how movements do (or don't) have impact in the digital age. Historically: movements that can do strategic and long-term analysis of their current moment, and follow through, get more out of their efforts. Book is creative commons as well:https://www.twitterandteargas.org/ 

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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Sep 2018

      It's never "oh get off Twitter" or "protest vs. vote." Dichotomies like that make for nice narratives but weak movements. Smart movements have strategic analysis of what tool is good for what, where the levers of power are and how to pull, how to build and wield legitimacy, etc.

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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Sep 2018

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Danielle Waugh DaRos

      Digital tech makes in-person events like this even more valuable. Tech has made mass calling easy, so it signals less capacity. But constituents who are willing to organize—it's an electoral threat and a personal message. I go on about this in my book!https://twitter.com/DWaughNBCBoston/status/1045706365635891200 …

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      Danielle Waugh DaRosVerified account @DanielleCBS12
      This is the crowd outside @SenatorCollins Portland office. They plan to go up to her office in groups to stage a sit-in, urging her to vote no on #Kavenaugh pic.twitter.com/Dgd6vyaCYC
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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Sep 2018

      Like this: tech makes certain things *easy* but imagine you're a politician. Are you worried about easy things or hard things? Which ones communicate a political threat? The magic of protest is what it communicates, not any one form, and tech changes what each form communicates.

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        1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Oct 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Dave Wasserman

          As funding numbers get announced, hard not to notice lack of overall strategic allocation of money. A few star/attention races are way overfunded, while many close races are underfunded. What's lacking is strategic leadership, not coordination tools.https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1046853418785144833 …

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          Dave WassermanVerified account @Redistrict
          This is precisely what happened to ‘17 VA Dems, who *underestimated* the wave and failed to adequately fund a bunch of 2nd-tier Dems who fell just short while many of the best-funded won by a mile.
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