Out-of-State Money Fueled Blue Wave

[applegrove]

Out-of-State Money Fueled Blue Wave

December 29, 2018 at 5:40 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 15 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2018/12/29/out-of-state-money-fueled-blue-wave/

"SNIP....

“The Democrats who captured the House by flipping 43 districts from red to blue received on average just over half of their large-dollar campaign funds from outside their states, another example of the nationalization of the November election that was a rebuke to President Donald Trump,” USA Today reports.

“The defeated Republicans in those districts, by contrast, collected only about one-third of their itemized funds from outside their states.”

......SNIP"

[lunatica]

1. All politics are local

Now more than ever, and it will become more so as people wake up.

[JCanete]

3. except that that statement flies in the face of this article. Infusions of money from elsewhere

have an impact. Obviously these were local candidates, but nobody should pretend that big money and influence it wields is overshadowed simply by local popularity. Money is a kingmaker. It decides what local faces and voices are privileged in the local and national media.

[lunatica]

4. What I got out of the article is that good candidates get lots of money

from people from other states. For example, I live in New Mexico but I donated money to Candidates from California, Texas, Georgia and Florida. So did a ton of other Democrats.

Politics is local now.

[applegrove]

5. I think it is easy to misread your first quote as being against this post.

Thanks for explaining more what you meant. We all agree.

[lunatica]

6. Thanks for pointing that out

Obviously it’s not easy to be aware of how a post will come across. I’ll try to do better!

[applegrove]

7. Happens to me all the time.

[lostnfound]

2. Remember the headline "Out-of-State Money Fueled Red Wave"?

Neither do I.