I’m never sure what to think about Senators like Joe Manchin, who do manage to reelected in red states but aren’t really reliable Democrats. I *do* know that we’ve got to support endangered incumbents who *are* reliable Democrats. Doug Jones is the most obvious one but Gary Peters (MI) and Tina Smith (MN) may have …
And my time is a piece of wax
Next week a Democrat will send an email or get a hair-cut and everyone will forget that Trump called fallen soldiers losers and suckers. So let’s make hay while we can by raising money for Democratic Senate candidates. Lots of requests recently for Bullock and Greenfield, so let’s do them. Theresa Greenfield, Iowa Senate Steve …
Never mind the Stars and Stripes
Does anyone know what’s up with this? In a heretofore unpublicized recent memo, the Pentagon delivered an order to shutter Stars and Stripes, a newspaper that has been a lifeline and a voice for American troops since the Civil War. The memo orders the publisher of the news organization (which now publishes online as well …
All 2020 Fundraising
Here’s a list of all the candidates and State and County Parties on ActBlue that Balloon Juice is raising money for so far this cycle below the fold. We’re at 1050K this cycle total (will update this about once a week) and 1550K total for our lifetime. I’ll update the goals on some of these …
From Cheyenne to Tennessee
One of you suggested raising at least 1K for every Democrat running for Senate against an incumbent. We’ve now done that for everyone in a race rated Likely Republican, Lean Republican, Toss-Up, or Leans Democrat. We hit a few Solid Republican races too (LA, TN, SD). I probably want to do WY because it’s an …
Flipped the switch
I’m not sure what happened, but fundraising started to go nuts here over the weekend. We’ve raised 45K since last Friday night for political candidates. Thanks a lot everybody! Here’s a race that I think is a great investment that I’ve only highlighted once before: the special election in Georgia for the Senate seat vacated …
Open thread
No new posts in a while so I thought I’d do an open thread. Here’s a topic that we did before that was a lot of fun: what’s your favorite scene from any movie in terms of dialog? One of you posted links to an amazing scene from Double Indemnity last time.