The presidential candidate is usually the work horse pulling the party forward with a strong ground game. Clinton, like Obama before her, has filled the battlegrounds with field offices and staff. This may be most meaningful for the bottom of the ballot, state legislative races.
The least financed races benefit most, from efforts at the top. Trump is running a very different campaign. Rather than pulling the load, he is asking the local and state party apparatus to push him forward. He has outsourced the ground game to them.
Well financed Senate and Gubenatorial races, may be able to pick up the slack. But Democrats should see a resurgence in state houses, which down the road, will help with redistricting.
I sure hope you are correct. The down ballot races should be a priority this year.
ReplyDeleteClinton has way outdone Trump in money, strategy, people in the field, a party united behind her, but her lead nationally is within the margin of error. I wonder how much all that counts?
Both Sanders and Trump have proven an exception to the usual corporate pandering for money. Clinton is more usual in that respect.
We can't count on future candidates financing campaigns the way Sanders and Trump did this year. Citizens United must be repealed.
I agree.
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