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10. These XXX% Match Things Are A Gimmick.

Assuming the money is going to the candidates’s campaign funds, and not a Super PAC, there’s no way this works. Each person who is allegedly providing matching funds, has to face the federal campaign finance maximum, same as you. You can give up to $3300, per election, per candidate. So, you can donate the maximum twice: Once for the primary and once for the general election. These alleged matching donation people would very quickly hit the max and that’s it for them.

What this does is get you to feel an urgency to donate. Another tactic to drive up the urgency you feel is to say they’re up against some filing deadline. It’s all kinda sleazy and underhanded, so it’s bad enough when Democrats use this tactic. But I’ve seen similar pitches by Republicans and theirs are worse. If I’m not mistaken, Cantaloupe Caligula the Corpulent has done this on multiple occasions, claiming match percentages that would make Satan blush.

And before anyone gets pissed and says I’m bashing the Democrats, that’s 100% not the case. I’m simply explaining a fund raising tactic that both sides use, and generally to good results.