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Within the Margin of Effort – GA Runoff (We Have An Angel!)

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You guys are amazing!  As I write this, we are already at $21,000 for Worker Power in GA, the same boots on the ground organization we supported in AZ.

That funds either 20 people on the ground in GA for a week or it funds 4 canvass team leaders – each of whom runs a team of 10-15 canvassers.

They need to fund 20 canvass team leaders and 300 pairs of boots on the ground, and everything we can do helps keep Raphael Warnock in the Senate, and boy oh boy do we ever need him (and want him) there.

Fingers Crossed for Katie Hobbs, Possibly Good News Tonight? 7

I know it’s more fun to give when we have an angel, but we have completed our angel matches, so we are on our own for now.  Heartfelt thanks to our Balloon Juice Angels – you guys are a big part of how we have been able to raise so much for our targeted fundraising this year.

Let’s do this!

Update at 11:40 am:

We have a new Balloon Juice Angel – Subaru Diane just offered a $500 match on donations up to $50 per person for donations listed in the comments.

Let the Angel Match begin!

Update:  Angel match #3 and the Subaru Diane Angel match are both complete!

New matches start in the morning when I get up.

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  4. 4.

    Jesse

    What about the idea of a micro angel?  As I ally, a donation paired with another one, both small-ish. Something like: I’ll pitch in $:5 if someone else pitches in $25.

  5. 5.

    thruppence

    In for another $25. I received 40 (!) email Warnock solicitations just yesterday, but who knows where that money goes? Here, I know.

  7. 7.

    WaterGirl

    We have a new Balloon Juice Angel – Subaru Diane just offered a $500 match on donations up to $50 per person for donations listed in the comments.

    Let the Angel Match begin!

  10. 10.

    WaterGirl

    @James E Powell: Well, Subaru Diane just doubled that, so it turned into $50!

    Also, no one ever needs to apologize for the size of a donation.  One person’s $10 can be more generous than another person’s $100, and the great thing about BJ is that we are adding them together so it all amounts to a lot. :-)

  11. 11.

    frosty

    I just donated $50. Thanks for the match, SD, and thanks for finding these GOTV groups, WG. I feel good that my money isn’t going to TV ads.

  13. 13.

    way2blue

    Can I underscore that even though we now have a Senate majority (given Biden in the White House)—a Warnock win by giving us a clear majority—would mean the committees no longer need to be organized 50/50 D/R.  Rather the Democrats would hold majority seats in each.  A big BIG deal given the soon-to-be Republican-run House and the two contrarian Democratic Senators.

  14. 14.

    Paul W.

    I just gave 50, looks like my being late to the party means it will get matched?

    I’ll donate again next angel match, its too important to wait for the next month’s paycheck but just trying to watch my spend coming out of the election season.

  18. 18.

    WaterGirl

    @way2blue: Yes!

    I have a post written already that outlines that and some of the other advantages.  It’s called:

    Why 51 Seats in the Senate Is 100x Better than 50 Seats

    For a lot of reasons!  Hope you’ll join that thread when it goes up.

  23. 23.

    WaterGirl

    @frosty: I am pretty sure that a ton of the money that’s going directly to Warnock is going to ads, because they were talking about needing money by a certain date because they needed to know how much their big ad buy was going to be.

    Not that there’s anything wrong with that!

    But I fast-forwarded through every single ad in Illinois – I would see CORRUPT! flash by, but I had no idea whether it was us calling out the corrupt Rs or if it was the Rs lying about the Dems.

    So what we’re doing here is helping the candidate and also investing in the future.  In this case, we can’t register new people, but we can get a win if we get enough registered people out to vote.

    And every time someone votes, it makes them more of a “voter” and it can impact future elections.  And maybe they ask their friend or family if they are going to vote.  I think hearing from a real person – at your door or on the phone – is surely going to have more of an impact.

  25. 25.

    WaterGirl

    @Paul W.: Perhaps you’re joining the Ramen Noodles for Dinner club? :-)

    Of course, these days, eating Ramen out at a restaurant is a whole different deal than eating the ramen noodles package that cost less than a quarter each when I worked at the grocery store.

    I remember that because they were normally something like 19 cents, but when they put them “on sale”, they were 4 for a dollar!

  27. 27.

    WaterGirl

    @barbequebob:  I think we’ll match both you and Paul W because there was $100 left on angel match #3, but I didn’t publicize that in this post because I didn’t want a bunch of people donating to get that and then not have their $ matched.

  30. 30.

    James E Powell

    @way2blue:

    Totally agree with you. Senator Warnock is critical to our future success. To be honest, if we had 62 senators & one more was still in doubt, I would want to win it.

    In addition to the votes he will provide, I get a special pleasure from knowing that Georgia has two Democratic senators, one African American, one Jewish, because of the way that goes against the narratives the political press loves to promote about Georgia, The South, and America.

  31. 31.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Only slightly O/T: A couple of days ago, I received a nice runoff GOTV letter (green ink!) from Vote Forward (votefwd.org), written and signed by one Anna L. in Oakland, CA. Any remote chance Anna is a jackal?

  32. 32.

    bbleh

    Somewhat OT, CNN, AP, WaPo et al. have called CA-47 for Porter (yeah they’re a little behind).  That makes it 218-212, with 5 left, which look like they’ll split 4-1 or 3-2 (although 3 are in Cal with lots of ballots still out).  So likely a 7- or 9-vote margin for Republicans.  What. A. Mess.

  36. 36.

    bbleh

    @WaterGirl: I dunno, for it to be only 1 seat would require Boebert losing, which looks unlikely, and for 3 seats 3 of her plus the Reps in the 3 Cal districts would have to lose, and those are all in reddish country (Central Valley, NV border).  I’ll be VERY happy if the Dems manage to keep it to 5.

    But any way it turns out, I do not envy Mr McCarthy or his staff.

  40. 40.

    bbleh

    @way2blue: @SiubhanDuinne: @WaterGirl: @James E Powell: @BlueGuitarist: yes, yes, yes, yes and yes!  Having an absolute majority gives the Dems FAR more power, not least because it means no one Senator holds the balance.  This seat is NOT just a nice-to-have!  (Plus, Senator Herschel Walker? I mean omg.)

    I am cautiously optimistic.  Dems are generally much more activated this time than the last time Warnock won, plus it is significantly likely that Trump will wade into the middle of it, and I still maintain he is more of an asset for Dems than Reps at this point.

  42. 42.

    billcinsd

    After SD’s match is finished, I could match up to $2,000 which should get this pretty close to the goal. Please note I haven’t voted for a statewide winner since 2009, so may be dooming Senator Reverend Warnock with this donation.

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