I'm really not in the mood to waste money and give it to the Democratic Senatorial campaign committee after years of being dicked around by them using money to support Senators I opposed in a Firewall strategy against Primary Challengers that made me largely prefer individual and non bundled donations. But there's something else at work here in the sense that no matter how bad our guy is they are at least the lesser of two evils. So while I will find myself donating to candidates likely to change things like Carl Sciortino who I gave $20.00 to and there's a Course in miracles woman running in California I'm trying to remember to give some to but I can't remember her name (PLEASE REMIND ME!) who recently came down about the Mcclutheon ruling .
You See I've been involved and need to get further involved in the 28th amendment road show and efforts from Move to amend coalition but Suffice it to say that the past week has brought some pretty big upsets in of itself, Tom Wheelers messing around with the FCC not the least of which and the network neutrality fiasco.
So this is what they sent me: Hey Paul,
Just wanted to let you know: we’re seeing tremendous grassroots support for our Defeat Mitch Fund!
Send McConnell and the Republicans a powerful message! Contribute here.
In fact, we're less than $24,000 away from matching the $443,366 Mitch McConnell and his friends spent last week dollar-for-dollar!
If we can reach our goal by the end of the day, it will send McConnell and the Republicans a powerful message: our grassroots supporters can go toe-to-toe with your Super PACs and win!
Together, we will defeat Mitch McConnell and stop a Republican Senate takeover. But Paul, we need your help to get there.
Supporter Record: VN96CB5JN90
Deadline: 6 hours
Suggested Support: $32
Paul, will you pitch in $32 right now? We’ll match any gift you make before midnight tonight!
Thank you,
DSCC Alert
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it's too late to pitch in 32 bucks and get the "matching gift" but It actually doesn't matter. You see I'm ignoring their pitch. Do you know why?
Efficacy. Because if I'm going to support our Senate Efforts I want to make every penny count for as much as possible. So I told the DSCC politely no and I gave it to credo.
http://credosuperpac.com/...
CREDO’S STRATEGY
The CREDO Super PAC strategy is unique among political committees and designed to be several times more effective than most alternatives at its goal – changing who represents us in Congress.
The core of our plan is to build a field operation, staffed by experienced organizers, that absorbs and magnifies thousands of volunteers to make personal contacts with voters at front doors, porches and over the phone. Research and hard-won experience make it clear that this is by far the most effective technique.
These volunteers will have two goals – to persuade independent and Republican women to vote against Tea Party House Republicans (or decline to vote for them), and to turn out progressive base voters.
The CREDO Super PAC does not undertake broadcast advertising – the primary expenditure of most political committees. Broadcast advertising can be powerful if done massively and immediately before an election. But this kind of advertising done before the final weeks is largely irrelevant. In fact, research has shown that over the course of an entire election cycle, expensive broadcast media buys for television attack ads (which most super PACs will invest in this cycle) have some of the lowest returns on investment in electoral work.
Based on an analysis of the most current research, CREDO beats the voter impact of a typical super PAC by 7 to 1, with a campaign that focuses on building scalable volunteer voter-contact programs in select races.
Volunteer voter contacts by phone or at the door are more effective than a paid call or a paid canvass. And unlike paid techniques, volunteer phone and door canvasses can be scaled up in the weeks preceding the vote. With a volunteer field effort, we can persuade voters at 14% of the cost it would take to generate the same number of additional votes with broadcast television attack ads. Volunteer voter contacts are also more enduring voter contacts over time. While a volunteer voter contact in October is relatively more powerful than a voter contact in June, both contacts have an impact in terms of persuasion and GOTV.
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Now I'm not saying this won't "dick me around" for "certain" by never supporting candidates in primaries I don't but this year we don't really have primaries going against incumbent democrats from what I've seen (correct me if I'm wrong I'd like to get involved) but one thing's for certain about Credo's approach- After years and years of reading DailyKOS and Occasionally Volunteering for Campaigns Myself I know that it works better.
We don't need ad placements. We need people out there talking tho these people directly and yeah that might require focus groups on convincing people but let me tell you VERY little would convince me to support our guys better and more consistently than actually being able to talk to someone. Being able to look them in the eyes or Have a two dialog over the phone matters. television ads are just too impersonal. Especially in the modern culture where so few people have the time!
So I gave them 30. and Seeing as my bitcoin Trading has turned into a run away success there is more coming. You will hear me ROAR.
10:34 AM PT: the DSCC got the 11 dollars. Doesn't matter. I'm making Money Hand over foot With this bitcoin thing. I will be Fighting tooth and nail. I will RIP THEM apart limb By fucking Limb until there's nothing right wing left standing in either party only the economic FAR LEFT for outright redistribution left standing and if you think that's Evil AVAS SATANAS. go cry!