The huge amount of money being spent on races makes things almost impossible for downballot candidates. Knock on doors? There have been 10 Collins/Jackson canvassers there before me and now people are pissy. Send mailers? I literally got 9 of them in my mailbox yesterday.
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couple theories for GA/NC 1. It’s so Cooper/Ossoff can move their state dollars around to more effectively boost the state coordinated campaigns 2. It’s to drive those races to near double digit wins to help the downballot candidates Have to look into it seeing as you can’t “coordinate” *wink*
This may be the election that finally shows D Party muckety-mucks that lavish spending in campaigns has diminishing impact... (Abbott outspends Hinojosa 6:1, Ramaswamy outspends Acton 6:1, Paxton outspends Talarico 2:1; etc., & they all trail.) ...& that Ds *CAN* reject big corp money.
The DNC faces a severe fundraising gap compared to Repubs. And the DNC is in debt. My cell messages have 11 requests for $ from Dems. Daily I rcv anywhere from 25+ such requests. The $ in politics and apparently lack thereof for Dems are problems. Ads cost. Staff costs. Travel costs. Answers?
