Where Political Donations will go the furthest
Introduction
You have probably gotten thousands of emails with candidates beginning for your hard-earned money. This blog post will sort through the noise and tell where your money given to candidates actually goes the furthest. This blog post will help clean your inbox (Finally!) and maximize the chances of progress being made.
State And Local Dollars Go the Furthest: A Strategy for Impact. Focus your Money on Purple Races
Most of your emails have come from federal candidates running for offices, and the impact your dollars make there is extremely limited compared to state and local candidates. While some federal campaigns are worth giving money to, the reality is that your money goes further in State or County elections rather than federal elections. It is also important to be strategic about where your money goes. Focus on races that are close. Look at the Cook Political Report Partisan Voting Index to get a good idea of how close a race is and give you a general idea of whether the election is winnable or not. So those are basic things to consider about were political donations do or do not make sense but mistakes are often made like when small dollars Democrats poured millions into Kentucky in a US Senate election in 2020 against McConnell that they had very little realistic shot of winning.
A Brief Guide
If you have a budget of $100 dollars Here are the Candidates and the amounts i would give to
Federal
Tester $20
State
Schwiebert,Winters and Gresham $20 and $10 to Butler
Local
Stringham $10
If you have a budget of $150 dollars Here are the Candidates and the amounts i would give to
Federal
Tester $20
Harris/Walz $10
State
Schwiebert, Winters and Gresham $30,$10 to Butler and $10 to Aguilar
Local
Stringham $10
If you have a budget of $150 dollars Here are the Candidates and the amounts i would give to
Federal
Tester $20
Harris/Walz $10
State
Schwiebert, Winters and Gresham $30,$10 to Butler and $10 to Aguilar
Local
Stringham $10
If you have a budget of $200 dollars Here are the Candidates and the amounts i would give to
Federal
Tester $20
Harris/Walz $10
State
Schwiebert, Winters $35 and Gresham $30,$10 to Butler and $20 to Aguilar
Local
$20 Stringham
Conclusion
So those guidelines mentioned above are a goodbase line the reason i choose the candidates mentioned above is because Tester has tight election in Montana,Schwibert,Winters,Gresham and Butler all have very close elections in the Arizona State Legislature. Tim Stringham is a veteran and a Democrat running against a far right candidate for Maricopa County Recorder (the office in charge of elections in Maricopa County). Yleina Aguilar is running for the Arizona Corporation Commission (The board in Arizona that decides electricity mandates,railway regulations,electricity price increase approvals) against three republicans a Democratic counterpart is running with Aguilar, Jonthan Hill. These races get little attention but oftentimes are very consequential especially the Legislature wich decides all Arizona laws and things like taxation and government expenditures and the Maricopa County Recorders will be a critical election after incumbent Stephen Richer lost his primary to a further right Republican endorsed by Kari Lake. If you have a little bit more money maybe consider donating to Daniel Valenzula running for County board of supervisors or Debroah Howard running for Arizona State House in a red district (Blake masters won this district by less than one percent) but has a decent chance of winning because she is a single shot candidate. No matter how you choose to give your money away to candidates, make sure that the candidates are in competitive races and focus your limited dollars on state and local elections.
