This is fucking wrong and absolutely fucking infuriating. But hey, who needs facts when you can buy into a narrative. Dems didn't lose seats in 2009-2016 because of a lack of investment or a lack of candidates or because of some super secret sophisticated GOP planhttps://twitter.com/zeynep/status/942778583436709888 …
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She links to a graph showing Dems have outspent the GOP on US House races in almost all recent cycles, dismisses that because *waves hands* Dismisses the massive uptick in candidates for 2018 because *waves hands*
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Just Koch brothers along spent about a billion in 2016, all down-ballot. That's infrastructure building. Been going on for a long time. Who are the entities that do that on the Dem side on that scale, for that long? Money is spent, sure—a lot of last minute TV ads.
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Also, loss of civic infrastructure has been lopsided. There are churches, NRA, downballot, etc. building on the R side in a way that is not balanced on the Dem side. Also c(4) spending seems unbalanced—that's something I hear a lot, looking to document more.
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also, feel free to point me to why you think I'm wrong in longer form. I buy Skocpol's argument on asymmetric civic infrastructure erosion; fits very well with what I read, what I heard and what I observed.
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I'm reacting to some specific claims you are making about Dem spending in US House races, and about a specific claim that $100,000 in spending is arbitrarily high. They are wrong. I have no idea how you ended up on civic infrastructure
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I don't think 100K is high! It's peanuts. I think it's interesting that it's so hard to raise even that little money... Even Indivisibles, which rose after the election and is so high profile, has tiny funding, most of it grassroots, not big donors. Also, from that site.pic.twitter.com/4RGBPrYQtw
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https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/16/upshot/senate-races-where-outside-groups-spend-their-money.html … 82% of outside spending in 2014 was on TV. In 2014 Dems spent $8.7 M on field. GOP groups spent $0.7 M
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will circle back, wrestling with a deadline. this is of great interest to me, and a pretty important discussion.
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