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Beau breaks down online donor numbers revealing Democratic Party's surge and Republican Party's loss; a Supreme Court decision seems to be a significant motivator.
Political analysts, strategists
Analysis of the potential impact of online donor numbers on political strategies and future elections.
#Document-based Journalism #Online Donors #Republican Party #Democratic Party #Political Trends #Supreme Court Decision
Well, howdy there, internet people, it's Beau again.
So today, we are going to talk about some good,
old-fashioned paperwork journalism.
Something I talk about on the channel a lot
are outlets that go through documents
and put the numbers together to provide context,
because it can be very, very revealing.
Normally, that comes from just one of a few outlets.
This is from Politico,
and I will put the article down below
because I'm just gonna go over a tiny fraction
of the numbers and there's a lot
of other interesting stuff in it.
What I'm gonna go over should give
the Republican Party chills.
The set of numbers I found the most interesting
was comparing the number of online donors
for each party from the last half of 2021
the first half of 2022. In the last half of 2021, the Republican Party had 956,000 online donors,
first half of 2022, 913,000, a loss of 43,000 online donors. Heading into a midterm. That's
That's unnerving.
What about the Democratic Party?
And that was through WinRed, by the way, the GOP's online fundraising platform.
The Democratic Party, which uses ActBlue, the last half of 2021, 1.9 million online
donors, the first half of 2022, 2.5 million online donors.
That's a substantial increase.
But wait, there's more.
People have been talking about how the Democratic Party has become more enthusiastic, become
more driven because certain things have caused them to be more engaged.
first half of 2022. January, February, March, April, May, June. When did the enthusiasm
supposedly start? June 24th. That's when that ruling came down. These numbers don't
even include any of that. That should give the Republican Party chills. That Supreme
court decision, that's what people see as a motivating factor.
But what this shows is that it was happening before then.
That was just the thing that pushed it over the top.
These additional 600,000 online donors for the Democratic Party, those very well may
be those unlikely voters that we've talked about as far as things that might cause polling
to be a little off.
So this is something that I'm sure political strategists are going to start paying attention
to.
Anyway, it's just a thought.
y'all have a good day.
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