People don’t believe me but I still hear a lot of within-reach House races that are struggling to fundraise—grassroots shows up and donates but given have neglected Dem electoral infrastructure has been, may not be enough.https://twitter.com/nate_cohn/status/940786385929285632 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Kevin M. Kruse
Electoral infrastructure is where it’s absolutely at in terms of capacity building, and Dems have drastically underfunded and ignored that part for years, while funding TV plus consultant class type work.https://twitter.com/kevinmkruse/status/940941000696049665 …
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TV ads are mostly either lighting money on fire, or enriching the consultant class which takes a big cut, or vanity projects. Organizing young people (yes, they do need to be organized) otoh.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://twitter.com/seanmcelwee/status/940819385412980738 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Blank. Don't tell me what my name can't be.
It’s always the winning strategy but need to start getting ready early, not with last minute money/volunteers.https://twitter.com/boendercarol/status/940950789253730304 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Marge Doyle, RN
I hear this all the time, and, for example,
@techsolidarity has been specifically focusing on this and, surprise, it is not hard to find within-reach but drastically underfunded districts on the Dem side.https://twitter.com/Marge4Congress/status/940993815652921344 …zeynep tufekci added,
Marge Doyle, RN @Marge4CongressReplying to @zeynep @PinboardTY for highlighting this! Campaigns in low-income rural districts like#CA08 (Joshua Tree) struggle to even hit $100k. No Dem before me has ever raised more than $36k & the state/national party has never invested in electoral infrastructure, candidate development or GOTV here.3 replies 26 retweets 43 likesShow this thread
zeynep tufekci Retweeted TechSolidarity
See here for an a NYC event this Saturday that brings such candidates for a fundraiser. I interviewed a few of these folks, and they often cite lacking money for building infrastructure as biggest obstacle.https://twitter.com/TechSolidarity/status/940979156854063104 …
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They should take lessons from the Alabama Senate win, in which apparently AL Dems created a huge on-the-ground turnout effort by reducing TV ad spending.
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