If I’m reading this correctly, nearly 0.5% of ALL ActBlue donations nationally since #RBG’s passing have gone through the fundraising pages I have set up. I’m honored to play a part in saving our democracy. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
(It says $72M as of 6pm; I was at around $330K at that time).
Yup...via NY Times, it was $80M by 7:30pm. I had raised $350K in that period.
Fascinating how consistent this has been:
AB total, 7:30pm Fri - Midnight Sat: $91M
Made thru my AB pages, 7:30pm Fri - Midnight Sat: $400K
As far as I can tell, donations made thru my AB pages have *consistently* made up between 4.3 - 4.8% of *all* AB donations since RBG's passing.
Assuming that ratio has been representative all along/remains so, it's a handy way of tracking how much ALL Dems have raised online.
Assuming this ratio holds steady for the rest of the election cycle, if you want to know how much money *all* Dems have raised via ActBlue each day, just multiply how much I've raised in that time period by around ~225x or so. Huh.
This was posted at 10:27 this morning. As of that time I had raised $462,000 since 7:30pm Friday evening. That's 0.46% (1/216th).
After the dust settles I think I'll see if I can get AB's prior ticker totals from each month to see if the correlation has stayed the same all year... #Nerd
Also worth noting (if unsurprising):
--75% of all donations made through my AB pages were to #FlipTheSenate ip until news broke of #RBG's passing,
--92% of all donations made through my AB pages *since* #RBG's passing have been to #FlipTheSenate.
When I started this just after the midterms, I figured the split would be something like 50% Senate, 25% House, 20% State Legislatures, 5% Executives.
Instead it's currently 78% Senate, 10% House, 10% State Legislatures, 2% Executives.
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🧵 People have asked me why I started an organized project to raise money *directly* for Democratic candidates up & down the ballot when there's already so many other organizations out there doing this. There's a couple of reasons. 1/
The first is that most of the existing organizations/PACs/etc seem to (in my view) *either* focus ONLY on the true swing districts *or* they raise money for races which are clearly unwinnable without being up front about how long the odds in those races are. 2/
I try to walk the line between these--for district-level races I cast my net wider than most "tossup only!" advocates, but not absurdly wide; for statewide races I *do* include deep red states but also make it absolutely clear that those races are *very* long shots. 3/
A little fun Die Hard trivia for those who don’t know:
The first Die Hard was based on a 1979 novel called Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp. In the novel McClain’s character was named Joe Leland. This was a sequel to a 1966 novel by Thorp called The Detective. 1/
The Detective had been made into a film starring Frank Sinatra as Joe Leland in 1968.
This means Bruce Willis plays the same character as Frank Sinatra.
In fact, the studio was contractually required to offer the role to Sinatra if he wanted it. Sinatra was 73 at the time.
As for the novel Nothing Lasts Forever (title since changed to “Die Hard”), it follows most of the same storyline and characters, but with a few VERY important differences…
How does the @nytimes know that these are actual federal officials who actually signed it if they did so “anonymously?”
Does that mean the Times is redacting their names? Or does it just say “signed, 400 officials” at the bottom of the letter?
@nytimes I’m not being snarky here—I can’t read the original NY Times article without a subscription; do they clarify how they verified that these 400 people actually are federal officials and that they did in fact sign off on the letter in it?
1. DON'T DELAY; #GETCOVERED BY *DECEMBER 15th* IF POSSIBLE!
#ACA Open Enrollment officially runs from 11/01/23 - 1/16/24, but if you want your coverage to start in JANUARY you only have until December 15th in most states!
Here's a table of the deadlines & when coverage starts for every state +DC (some may be extended at the last minute):