WASHINGTON (AP) — After pouring more than $1.2 billion of his personal fortune into presidential politics this election, former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg has little to show for it.
Let’s try Georgia Senate this time, Mike.
Stacey Abrams could use the money.
Maybe the truth is simpler - big spending on things like ad campaigns doesn’t change anything. If used for GOTV efforts, maybe, but otherwise, it’s just money down the drain.
A stray, weird thought - if not for Covid-19, Trump would be getting ready to celebrate his second inaugural.
He still is…
Still give him an A for effort
Wasn’t Bloomberg supposed to be funding the effort to pay the outstanding fines for the felons who could have their voting rights restored?
And neither Bloomburg’s dough nor your ‘advice’ had anything to do with that at all. This was a marathon and you entered in the last mile wanting to join the victory lap; whoop-de-doo.
yup. Nobody’s listening. People went into this cycle knowing who they would vote for.
He is going to be so pissed when the crowd is bigger than his… haha
As the old saying goes, “You can’t shine shit.”
Big election spending is always a bust. I’ve been arguing this for years. Third parties that spend millions on a candidate do so to buy that candidate, but they almost never have any influence on the outcome of the election.
I’m not at all convinced that Trump would have won without Covid, although that will certainly be the Republican narrative going forward.
Biden had a pretty consistent lead in polling from well before Covid fully hit and it changed little over the course of the campaign. Also, I think the pandemic may actually have helped Trump with certain demographics. And I think the Biden/Democratic side was very much hurt by the inability to do personal, door-to-door canvassing and GOTV. Biden was required to act responsibly while the other side didn’t.
We’ll never know for sure, of course, but I don’t think we should latch on to the narrative that it was only Covid that defeated Trump.
If he stays true to form, he’ll do a big ad buy between christmas and new year’s. Big money early is far more effective than last minute money.
Early spending maybe, maybe penetrating before saturation. Otherwise yes, GOTV, logistics is where to spend $$.
Bloomberg could give Uber a ton of money to pay their drivers for giving free rides to/from a polling place on Jan 5th. Advertise that.
By a bunch of chairs for the long ass lines. Umbrella’s Portable bathroom etc.
Maybe spending some of the money learning to understand what people need to hear not what the money thinks they should want to hear.
When I was a medic I was taught and learned you had to explain what you were doing in different ways to the causalities who came from all over the U S.
A New Yorker or someone from Alabama. There is a difference.
Non partisan Advertising encouraging voting seemingly would be as good investment.
Though non partisan should help our side more
To be fair, and that’s not something I would normally want to be with Bloomberg, but he ran into the same thing everyone else did who was relying on polls and stats to determine where to focus, their data was wrong.
I thank Bloomberg for living up to his word, even as it was largely unsuccessful.
While I await the final autopsy of what went right and what went wrong for us, I increasingly think throwing tens of millions of dollars in the last few weeks of a campaign is probably futile. We need to start investing major dollars, as Stacy Abrams has, into grassroots organizations that will be there for us at every cycle. We have to invest in voter registration, fight local/state laws that serve to suppress the vote, and also to keep our message front and center. Many churches and civic organizations have tilted the field towards conservatives or so it seems to me, especially in battleground states tilting purple. (Texas, NC, Georgia, Florida).
Hopefully what Stacy Abrams did in Georgia can serve as a case study for us nationwide.
I might add it’s not in Bloomberg’s interest to have a strong Democratic Party. He merely sought to defeat Trump, viewing him as a unique threat to America and to business, but I repeat myself.
A fool and his money, something, something…
You’re not really rich unless you spend money. A lot of money. Doesn’t matter how. That said, it is more efficient to spend money on political campaigns than on eggrolls.