re: #343 Anymouse

Bernie Sanders is campaigning for Heath Mello, the Democratic Party isn’t, and Mr. Mello is a Democrat.

A dollar amount for each candidate? Gee, I don’t know, I suppose that’s why they hire people and I am just a lonely Democratic village trustee that has to run for office against GOP advertising. I suppose if the DCCC spent enough money studying that at their next party, they could come up with at least a mailer or something for House candidates.

The GOP has enough money to pay attention to village trustee races in a village of 124 people and run radio adverts against me in the 2014 election. Are we really that broke we can’t even support every Democratic candidate that chooses to run for the US House or Senate? (How about support for the mayoral race in a major US city against a widely-disliked Republican incumbent?)

You know what I am not going to do? Slag Bernie Sanders for supporting Mr. Mello. The Democratic Party sure isn’t.

The Georgia Republican that did poorly compared to Tom Price is because ten other Republicans ran against her. She will not have competition from within her own party in the run-off.

Well hell, Any, let’s do some back of the envelope math here:

Between when he announced and this Tuesday, Ossoff raised around $8.3 million from mostly grassroots fundraising. So let’s round that down to $8m for easy calculation.

There’s 469 congressional seats up for grabs next year: 34 in the Senate and all 435 in the House. So at $8m a pop, assuming that you want to show the same support to every candidate so none feel as though the DCCC just left them to flounder, you’re talking

469
x 8
——————
3,752

That’s 3.75 billion that the DCCC would need to raise next year to contest every one of those seats equally. How much did they raise last year, in what was considered a hotly contested election, for every race? Just above 1.6 billion over all the races, presidential as well as congressional. Beginning to get an idea of the enormity of suggesting we contest every race as if we can win it?