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BOSSHOG

(42,932 posts)
1. I got a letter today
Sat Nov 9, 2024, 07:36 PM
Nov 2024

Thanking me for the last donation and wanting more. I’m fortunate my shredder survived the last three months.

dutch777

(4,567 posts)
2. An hour after the PA polls closed, Obama reached out to me for $20 to Get Out the Vote. Really?
Sat Nov 9, 2024, 07:37 PM
Nov 2024

I do understand time zones but pretty sure my X $ ain't gonna get out the vote anywhere that matters. Doubly sure now. Sheesh!

Fish700

(148 posts)
3. I at least got two Dark Brandon coffee mugs. Maybe they will be collectors items in the camps.
Sat Nov 9, 2024, 07:39 PM
Nov 2024
 

jimfields33

(19,382 posts)
7. Crap. I heard 20 million.
Sat Nov 9, 2024, 07:42 PM
Nov 2024

The bottom line is they spent well over a billion in a hundred days.

SweetieD

(1,673 posts)
8. I wonder what the money was spent on? I didn't really see any ads. I don't watch TV though
Sat Nov 9, 2024, 07:43 PM
Nov 2024

but I am on the internet a lot.

Retrograde

(11,158 posts)
10. travel can eat up a lot of the budget
Sat Nov 9, 2024, 08:54 PM
Nov 2024

Unless Harris and Walz were both traveling on government planes, getting them and their staffs to Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, and the other states where they spent their time can take a lot of cash. Then there's the rent for venues - which unlike a certain president-elect they actually pay, extra security in rally locations, costs of all those entertainers, election swag, TV and social media ad buys. That's a guess - national candidates don't bother coming to my neck of the woods unless there's money to be had. All those emails begging for money for every Senate candidate cost at least some money.

And it didn't work. It's time to step back and take a long, hard look at how presidential and congressional campaigns are won. We're clearly doing something wrong and I don't know what it is.

Abolishinist

(2,599 posts)
9. I got one several hours ago asking for a donation...
Sat Nov 9, 2024, 07:45 PM
Nov 2024

"We must pass the Judiciary Act so that Biden can appoint 4 more judges before he leaves"

Meowmee

(9,212 posts)
11. They actually stopped calling me this time
Sat Nov 9, 2024, 08:59 PM
Nov 2024

After I told them, my father was dead numerous times. But I was still getting texts for myself and my father most of which to which I said Stop.

I still kept Robert Reichner. I’m confusing his name probably… he sent me another text with a link to a video the next day, about how he was scared etc. and I have to give him money to help all the people who are going to be affected by this. No concern for me because I’m going to be affected by it too. I don’t count in the Democratic Party apparently even though since I was 24 and became a citizen. I voted every time for every candidate. I didn’t make demands or threaten not to vote etc. if I didn’t have the candidate of my choice.

Somehow, they were still emailing me too, but I deleted all of those most of the time without even reading them. I have to start unsubscribing again. I don’t know how they got my email since I already unsubscribed from everything a long time ago.

It makes me wonder if they are 20,000 in debt or whatever someone said here, how do they have the money to send people letters?

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