re: #348 Targetpractice

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?

It is much too early for either math or economics! (Economics because the basis of economics is the distribution of resources when there are infinite wants and scarcity).

I was at the local Democratic committee meeting last month and they had a speaker who was going to run for Congress in 2018. The candidate in 2016 is the former local committee chairman and was also at the meeting.

After the future candidate spoke, the current chairman made some comment like, “so you need to raise like a $1,000,000 to run, right?”

I made eye contact with the former chairman and last year’s candidate and ended up sending him a text message during the meeting say, “you would have killed for a million, right?” He had managed to raise a whole $47,597 last year while the incumbent Republican had raised $1,047,334.