Reply #31: I don't really see that

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44% is, of course, very good. If they beieved she would easily have won, why wouldn't they back her or stay out of it? That's not logical. And it's not about "grassroots," either. Money management seems to have been an issue. Compare Cegelis to, say, Francine Busby in CA-50, who is backed by *both* DFA and the DCCC. Busby, too, came in around 40% in her last try against Cunningham and now is in an open race, but Busby managed to hold onto much of the money she raised mainly from retirees and housewives. She's raised a half million dollars over the course of her campaign and has almost $400,000 of it in hand; Cegelis has one tenth of that amount in hand. There are other Democrats in the CA-50 race, too, who are not receiving DCCC support, but they are not receiving DFA support, either, and Busby has both. So no hue and cry from any quarter. Meanwhile, the party has to take all sorts of factors into account when they choose a candidate to support and part of it is simply a business decision. They would be irresponsible if they didn't examine where they'd expect to get a return on our money.