Let's put it in perspective. Koch bros spent about ONE BILLION in 2016 alone. @IndivisibleTeam runs on $1.6 million; most grassroots raised.
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Replying to @zeynep
Plain truth: there is no donor class on the D side with the requisite urgency or will to fund anything. There is a huge on on the R side.
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Replying to @zeynep
Plain truth: there is no donor class on the D side with the requisite urgency or will to fund anything. There is a huge one on the R side.
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Local news is decimated. The only way to fix this is to fund local news. Not some meager funds aimed at innovation, research or disruption.
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Without local news, local corruption is unchecked, and that trickles upwards. Almost all ad money goes to Facebook and Google. Just truth.
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Retail politics needs energy & grassroots—and the Dems have a lot of it. It also needs staff and resources for long-term. Not being funded.
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Replying to @zeynep
Structural problem: Republicans and Democrats both have a base that wants to win. Only R's have people with money who really want to win.
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Replying to @zeynep
Trump was vastly vastly outspent and still won. Thanks to social media, enthusiastic base can actually replace a lot of $.
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He was not vastly outspent if you put in the actual amount of money from everyone, especially for organizing: from Koch to NRA.
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Replying to @zeynep
Do you have any numbers on that? https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2016-presidential-campaign-fundraising/ … covers Super PACs but doesn't go into that sort of in-kind stuff.
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The campaigns aren't where things are at; neither campaign did great organizing. See this: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/us/politics/kochs-plan-to-spend-900-million-on-2016-campaign.html …
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Replying to @zeynep
Thanks, but that's a bit old, from before it seemed like Trump would be nominee; my understanding was Kochs mostly focused on downballot.
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Downballot focus is exactly right—that's where the organizing happens. Once every four yrs presidential campaigns is no way to have a party.
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