I wonder what THIS is all about. Tweet from Dave Wasserman concerning down ballot losses

[octoberlib]

Link to tweet

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I’ve got a potentially award-winning story for an investigative journalist that helps explain a tiny bit of why millions in Dem $$ never translated into down-ballot success this year. DM me for details.

Link to tweet

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TBC, this story is much more in the realm of potentially prosecutable scandals than honest mistakes.



David Corn from Mother Jones, The Daily Beast and other reporters responded.

[crimycarny]

1. Vote flipping?

Only focuses on the presidential candidates? Karl Rove did it in 2004.

[octoberlib]

2. I was wondering if it had more to do with this ,in other states

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214532728



MIAMI – Why would candidates for Florida Senate seats do no campaigning, no fundraising, have no issue platforms, nor make any effort to get votes?

Local 10 News has found evidence to suggest three such candidates in three Florida Senate district races, two of them in Miami Dade County, were shill candidates whose presence in the races were meant to syphon votes from Democratic candidates.

Comparisons of the no-party candidates' public campaign records show similarities and connections that suggest they are all linked by funding from the same dark money donors, and part of an elaborate scheme to upset voting patterns.

In one of those races, District 37, a recount is underway because the spread between the Democratic and Republican candidates is only 31 votes. The third party candidate received more than 6300 votes. That third party candidate is Alexis Rodriguez, who has the same last name as the Democratic incumbent senator Jose Javier Rodriguez. The Republican challenger is Ileana Garcia. Alexis Rodriguez falsified his address on his campaign filing form last June. The couple who now live at the Palmetto Bay address say they have been repeatedly harassed since then by people looking for Rodriguez, who hadn’t lived there in five years.

[crimycarny]

7. Hmmm...very interesting!

I hadn’t seen that story. Wow...

Hopefully we get some answers soon.

[mr_lebowski]

3. Was a lot of the money discussed somehow absconded? nt

[octoberlib]

5. Don't know anything yet.

[servermsh]

4. He could be referring to where the money went as opposed to the election side. n/t

[octoberlib]

6. True. Where in the hell would the money go? I hope an article comes out soon.

[mr_lebowski]

8. Jinx :) nt

[crimycarny]

9. I don't read that tweet as being about where/how money was spent

More along the lines of why down ballot races weren’t more successful DESPITE lots of money being spent on them. But I could be wrong, hard to interpret what he means. Hopefully we’ll find out soon enough.

[Princess Turandot]

10. Someone convincing voters that voting 'D' for president...

would automatically vote 'D' down the line, where that party-slate* option wasn't actually available? That's the only thing I could think of based on his very brief comment. (It has nothing to do with the money spent.)

*I forget the formal name for this.