CidneyUsing #MastodonForHarris to fundraise for to nonprofits and down-ballot Democrats that can actually make a difference will totally appease the neoliberals, right?
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Alon@cidney Downballot Democrats, sure. Unrelated nonprofits, please don't.
@Alon Specifically, my Congresswoman (Grace Meng, NY's 6th district) might have a tougher re-election campaign than polls suggest, and isn't a well-funded machine candidate. She's very good. Not worried about Gillibrand, but other Senate races are tight. It's right next to the neighborhood where Donald Trump grew up and he's relatively popular here vs. the rest of New York.
@cidney Yeah, then absolutely send money her way, and if you can do it under the Fedi brand then even better.
@Alon There are also GOTV and other left-leaning nonprofits that are similarly relevant, but none I want to endorse as much just yet. Tammy Baldwin and other Democratic Senators in close races too. I don't have enough money to make a difference but certainly sending $20 to a Congressional candidate goes a lot further than sending it to a Harris.
@cidney The polls showing WI-Sen is close are pretty dodgy (as in, partisan Republican polls, some of which just make up numbers); the poll watchers haven't left X, so you need to go to X accounts like SwannMarcus89 and AGrayBee to see the analysis. Do you want me to ask Alexander if he has recs? He's been looking at House race maximization.
@Alon Recs for what specifically?
@cidney Most efficient contributions to House races.
@Alon Feel free to @ him if he's on fedi. Don't know if he is or not.
@cidney Not meaningfully. I can ask on Discord.
lexande@Alon @cidney I just looked at the House races 538 said were close https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/house/ and then looked up how much money they'd raised on https://www.opensecrets.org/races and donated to most of the ones that had raised less than ~$5M. Nebraska Senate also looks close and Osborn hasn't raised that much.
@Alon @cidney I think contributions to well-chosen campaigns are likely to have a bigger electoral impact per dollar than even very good political nonprofits, since very rich donors can make unlimited donations to nonprofits but campaign contributions per person are capped. (And campaigns get discounted ad pricing and other opportunities to use money in ways nonprofits & even PACs can't.)