Political Fundraising

If a Republican runs for office in Indochina, I want a liberal waiting in a bowl of rice ready to raise seven figures in ActBlue money. So let’s go after some more House seats. This is Balloon Juice Tier 2 — Republican-held seats that are listed as Lean R by Cook. This is probably good bang for your buck. A lot flying under the radar but Silver and Wasserman say typically Dems are running 8-10 point higher in these than Hillary did in 2016.

There’s 18 Democratic candidates your money will go to: Carolyn Long, Christina Finello, Alan Cohn, Joyce Elliott, Diane Mitsch Bush, Alyse Galvin, Hillary Scholten, Lulu Seikaly, Jon Hoadley, Dan Feehan, Morris “Moe” Davis, Nancy Goroff, Mike Siegel, Patricia Timmons-Goodson, Kathleen Williams, Ammar Campa-Najjar, Betsy Dirksen Londrigan.

Balloon Juice House Tier 2 (Republican-held seats that are listed as toss-up)

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As always you can see all our candidates here.

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There have been a lot of changes in the House rankings recently, so I didn’t get a chance to put together my more longshotty House list yet. But I think it’s a good day to do some House fundraising. Here’s the two we have going so far.

Fifteen For Flipping (if we flip these, we have a majority of state delegations and Biden wins in case of a tie)

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Balloon Juice House Tier 1 (15 Republican held seats that are listed as toss-up)

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There’s one incumbent I’d like to help out, probably our most endangered one — Xochitl Torres Small. She’s from oil country and is catching flak for Biden’s commitment to fighting climate change.

Xochitl Torres Small (NM-02)

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Our HousePost + Comments (32)

This is the second or third time that I’ve heard data people I respect say Dems should be sinking more money into the Lone Star state:

Regardless of the ultimate outcome, I do think Democrats / their wealthiest megadonors will probably be kicking themselves that they didn't manage to scrounge up more money for this state

— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) October 22, 2020

The reason apparently is that despite what you might gleaned from Willie Nelson songs and Walker Texas Range, ackshually Texas is highly suburban. And suburban women, so languid and bittersweet, hate Donald Trump.

No matter what happens this November, an investment in Texas is an investment in the future, Mr. Gittes. It can easily be come the new Virginia/Colorado.

So let’s do an all Texas one today, megadonors! As always you can see all our candidates here.

MJ Hegar, Texas Senate

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Texas State Democratic Party

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Dallas County Democratic Party (TX) and Tarrant County Democratic Party (TX)

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Balloon Juice for Flipping Texas (split between GOP-held districts won by Beto)

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I crawl like a viper through these suburban streetsPost + Comments (152)

Some not-so-good state and national polls for Biden today. So I’m going to do all fundraising focused on some states that could decide the election: GA, NC, PA, and WI.

Hang in there everybody and vote if you can. We are mailing our absentees off later today. You can see all our candidates here.

North Carolina State Democratic Party

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Pennsylvania State Democratic Party

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Wisconsin State Democratic Party

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The Georgia special is one of the best ways to give to a Senate race IMHO. It’s now listed as a toss-up, hasn’t attracted quite as much scratch as some of the others, and the run-off election is later, which could mean after Trump has done all kinds of crazy shit that make the GOP more unpopular than ever.

Raphael Warnock, Georgia Senate (special election)

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The combination made my eyes bleedPost + Comments (117)

Texas is in some ways the mother of all state legislature battles. Flipping it would be a big fucking deal. Here’s a cool way to give that WaterGirl found. You can give here to all the Democratic candidates running in districts won by Beto held by Republicans. There’s five in the Dallas area, two in the Houston area, and two elsewhere. I put them in a random order so you can just give to the one on top to avoid too many mailing lists.

Balloon Juice for Flipping Texas

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If you’d rather you can give here to the Texas state Dem party or to some county parties in the Dallas area that Sam Wang thinks are great Moneyball places to give.

Texas State Democratic Party

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Dallas County Democratic Party (TX) and Tarrant County Democratic Party (TX)

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You can see all the candidates we are supporting here.

A steel and concrete soul with a warm hearted love disguisePost + Comments (57)