Republican Herschel Walker lost the Georgia senate runoff to Democrat Raphael Warnock, meaning that the Senate will have a 51-49 Democratic majority to start 2023.
I’m going to leave the whys and hows of how Republicans lost a winnable seat to others. What I am going to note is that we know, with a 100% surety, one reason Walker didn’t lose the runoff: A failure to send out enough donation solicitation emails.
The Walker campaign sent out a shitload of those.
Because I have a blog, am signed up to various political sites, and have occasionally donated small amounts of money to various Republican candidates, I get a tsunami of fundraising emails, all of which filed in a Political folder. And no one, including the Ted Cruz campaign (I donated to both senate and presidential runs) has sent me more email solicitations than the Herschel Walker campaign.
Since Walker announced his run on August 25, 2021, I have received no less than 751 fundraising emails. Here’s a screencap of just the Walker emails I received July 19-26:
But it’s not just Walker himself asking for money for his campaign. People who have asked me for money for Walker include:
Even his dog Cheerio “sent” me email asking for money. The response must have been underwhelming, because they stopped sending those a while back.
I realize campaigns need to do fundraising. But clearly carpet bombing people’s inboxes goes far past the point of diminishing returns.
So, I for one, am looking forward to not receiving a zillion emails from Herschel Walker from now on.
(Ironically, I received one today from John James via The Post Millennial, despite the runoff being over…)
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I’ve decided that if I want to contribute to a campaign, i will not respond to third-party appeals, as I want the entire amount to go the the candidate’s campaign, with a fundraiser taking some unknown but considerable piece of the action.
I’m also concerned about the authenticity of the solicitation. It seems pretty easy to claim you’re fundraising for someone, hmm?
Etaoin, those are both excellent observations IMHO.
As for myself, I get bombarded with texts soliciting donations for various Republican candidates— none local, but scattered across the US. And without exception they address me as though my name was Robert. It isn’t.
I get those emails too, and my take is that they have nothing to do with getting out the vote, but everything to do with pumping $$$ into the (D) machine. here’s one I got the day of the election:
“******,
We don’t have much time.
Election Day is today, and we need to do everything we can to turn out Democrats across the state and make sure they cast their ballot for Rev. Warnock.
We need our grassroots team to step up right now so we can maintain our momentum and continue funding our voter outreach program. Will you rush just $10 (or whatever you can) to split between the Democratic Party of Georgia and Mark Kelly so we can re-elect Rev. Warnock?
If you’ve stored your info with ActBlue, we’ll instantly process your contribution between Mark Kelly and the Democratic Party of Georgia”
Maybe Herschel was not directly sending those to you. Maybe the Republican machine was sending them out in his name. Btw, when you donate through the Republican portal, 90% of the money goes to the party and 10% goes to the candidate. We have to find a way to end this grifting.
First, I am amazed RNC still can use Trumps name in fundraising.
Second, you’ve not seen nothin’ yet wrt spam emails. I’ve got an ‘alternate identity’ I started when living in a cheap apartment in Fort Wort. By location, I suppose, I was presumed to be a lib. The screaming, bizarre emails DNC regularly sends that individual are frequently anti-white racist and incendiary.
I was receiving about three emails a day with Hershel’s name in them. They came from all sorts of grifters, and my sum total contributions to them was $0.
Why no donation? Because I have little confidence that the money will be well-spent.
Say what you will about the Democrats (and I say a lot), their money-machine does in the end provide a lot of support for the candidates. It’s how they fund their GOTV, ballot harvesting, ads and so on. Act Blue is a central coordinator and they understand that they money keeps coming in only if the blue faithful believe that there is benefit. I’m sure the movers and shakers live well, but it does appear that the Dem candidate ends up with enough money to run a campaign.
Whereas, the Pub money machine appears (to me) to be set up to fund the consultants and campaign grifters (BIRM).
How much money did Hershel’s campaign actually receive from all these donations? Did he even clear 10%?
You Pubs want my money? Clean up your act.
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I can’t help but point out that trying to out-Democrat Democrats is a losing game. These corruptocrats and photogenic celebrity vanity political candidates are things the Republicans would avoid, if they were a serious political party. Which they manifestly are not.
I fear the whole thing is theater; even if Hershel Walker had gotten elected, there’d be no net change to the trajectory we’re on. The Republican establishment is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Democrat Inc., and only acts in the interest of the Democratic Party. At least, that’s what I observe from where I’m sitting, in a state with no effective Republican party whatsoever, who are apparently only in business to extract the maximum amount of graft that they can get by being “loyal opposition” to their Democrat lords and masters. It’s a disgusting spectacle of felching, whenever they are confronted with their malfeasance. I never knew that mere words could convey such obscenity through mere implication, but then I hadn’t been forced to listen to one of our Republican-in-name types try to justify their willing acquiescence to the latest Democrat travesty.
I don’t doubt that Walker would have fallen in line with the other Republicans in the Senate, so I’m not to sure what we’ve lost. Vanity candidates aren’t the way we fix this, and the fact that Walker was running should tell us a lot about how serious our so-called “opposition” really is.