DAY SIXTY-ONE - SOME STATISTICS
day sixty-one | SOME STATISTICS
817 Sawbuck Patriots | $675,344 donated
Team:
Yup. $675K donated, total. And we're over $121K alone on Tuesday. THANK YOU.
As a team, we supported 54 congressional (and a few statehouse) campaigns. Also in the mix: Biden/Harris, three state parties, driving people to the polls, and paying Jim Crow-era court fees to qualify people to vote.
I promised you at the outset we would work to fund WINNABLE races - but I also had another goal, which many of you share: to fund winnable races that increase the diversity of Congress, making it more representative of our increasingly diverse nation. Let's take a look at Congress as it stands, and our 54 targeted campaigns, and compare them.
WOMEN
Congress currently has 127 women in it, or twenty-four percent.
House Democrats are 38.4% women.
House Republicans are 6.6% women.
Senate Democrats are 37% women (17 of 46, excluding the two Independents who caucus with the Ds).
Senate Republicans are 15.4% women.
PEOPLE OF COLOR
Congress currently has 116 non-white people in it, or twenty-two percent.
House Democrats are 43.5% non-white.
House Republicans are 5.1% non-white. (Amazingly, of 435 members of Congress, there is only one Black Republican House member, Will Hurd, of Texas - and he isn't running for re-election.)
Senate Democrats are 14.6% non-white.
Senate Republicans are 5.8% non-white.
SAWBUCK PATRIOT-SUPPORTED CANDIDATES
Sawbuck Patriot-supported candidates are 53.7% women. We overperform Congress' numbers.
Sawbuck Patriot-supported candidates are 29.6% non-white. Overperform.
One Sawbuck Patriot-supported candidate is openly gay, or 1.9%; 1.5% of Congress is openly gay or bisexual. (All Ds, FYI.) Overperform.
Just 25.9% of Sawbuck Patriot-supported candidates appear to be straight white guys.
One more thing: while I haven't done the exact math, I've read all the names of the Sawbuck Patriots gang as you've signed up and reported in your contributions, and I'd wager that Sawbuck Patriots iseasily60%+ female. Probably more.
OK, team. Two to-dos. One, if you haven't signed up with Indivisible or Knock for Democracy, please do, and pull a shift or three. There's work; we should do it.
And two, would you be interested in joining an Election Night Sawbuck Patriots Zoom Watch Party? We can watch results come in, socially distanced across three time zones, with folks who are specifically designated to track each of our targeted campaigns (and plug numbers into a shared spreadsheet so we can see how our team is doing), we can compare budget-conscious ramen recipes, and watch the historic results come in together - perhaps whilst enjoying a zesty adult beverage or six. If you'd like to join, LMK - and advise if you're willing to take a lead role, helping me mute and unmute people so that it's not all noise and chaos. If there's sufficient interest, I'll set it up.
And finally, I'm working on what should be a nice surprise tomorrow for you tremendous, wonderful, hard-working gang of humans. I think you'll like it. Stay tuned.
- Alex
Day sixty + sixty-one: INDIVISIBLE and/or KNOCK FOR DEMOCRACY | 817 Sawbuck Patriots
Day fifty-nine: FIRE ALL CANNONS | all candidates below, in bulk | 806 Sawbuck Patriots | $121,532
Day fifty-eight: Abigail Spanberger | VA-07 | 800 Sawbuck Patriots | $9677 | DONATE
Day fifty-seven: Ben McAdams | UT-04 | 798 Sawbuck Patriots | $9151 | DONATE
Day fifty-six: TJ Cox | CA-21 | 797 Sawbuck Patriots | $9411 | DONATE
Day fifty-five: Jackie Gordon | NY-02 | 798 Sawbuck Patriots | $9317 | DONATE
Day fifty-four: Diane Mitsch Bush | CO-03 | 794 Sawbuck Patriots | $9651 | DONATE
Day fifty-three: Dr. Cameron Webb | VA-05 | 791 Sawbuck Patriots | $9406 | DONATE
Day fifty-two: Moe Davis | NC-11 | 792 Sawbuck Patriots | $9719 | DONATE
Day fifty-one: Jill Schupp | MO-02 | 789 Sawbuck Patriots | $9329 | DONATE
Day fifty: NC Dems | NOOOOOORTH CAAAAAAROLINA | 788 Sawbuck Patriots | $11,817 | DONATE
Day forty-nine: Collin Peterson | MN-07 | 788 Sawbuck Patriots | $9119 | DONATE
Day forty-eight: Amy Kennedy | NJ-02 | 786 Sawbuck Patriots | $9399 | DONATE
Day forty-seven: the Statehouse | Texas | 783 Sawbuck Patriots | $9724 | DONATE
Day forty-six: Tedra Cobb | NY-21 | 776 Sawbuck Patriots | $9308 | DONATE
Day forty-five: Sri Kulkarni | TX-22 | 772 Sawbuck Patriots | $9349 | DONATE
Day forty-four: Hoye and Scholtz | Break the KS Supermajority | 767 Sawbuck Patriots | $9112 | DONATE
Day forty-three: Dr. Barbara Bollier | Kansas Senate | 762 Sawbuck Patriots | $9784 | DONATE
Day forty-two: Jon Hoadley | MI-06 | 782 Sawbuck Patriots | $10,107 | DONATE
Day forty-one: Alyse Galvin | AK-AL | 778 Sawbuck Patriots | $9521 | DONATE
Day forty: Kamala and Joe, again | Because mansplaining | 772 Sawbuck Patriots | $16,943 | DONATE
Day thirty-nine: Steve Bullock | Montana Senate | 771 Sawbuck Patriots | $10,503 | DONATE
Day thirty-eight: Debbie Mucarsel-Powell | FL-26 | 772 Sawbuck Patriots | $8821 | DONATE
Day thirty-seven: Hillary Scholten | MI-03 | 767 Sawbuck Patriots | $9152 | DONATE
Day thirty-six: Spinal Tap | Pennsylvania | 760 Sawbuck Patriots | $10,467 | DONATE
Day thirty-five: Rita Hart | IA-02 | 756 Sawbuck Patriots | $8553 | DONATE
Day thirty-four: Rideshare2Vote | Texas | 747 Sawbuck Patriots | $15,309 | DONATE
Day thirty-three: Ammar Campa-Najjar | CA-50 | 738 Sawbuck Patriots | $8578 | DONATE
Day thirty-two: Gary Peters | Michigan Senate | 723 Sawbuck Patriots | $8813 | DONATE
Day thirty-one: Kate Schroder | OH-01 | 710 Sawbuck Patriots | $8179 | DONATE
Day thirty: Cal Cunningham | North Carolina Senate | 695 Sawbuck Patriots | $9538 | DONATE
Day twenty-nine: Rafael Warnock | Georgia Senate | 686 Sawbuck Patriots | $11,503 | DONATE
Day twenty-eight: Al Gross | Alaska Senate | 678 Sawbuck Patriots | $8618 | DONATE
Day twenty-seven: the FRRC | Welcoming Citizens Home | 662 Sawbuck Patriots | $12,093 | DONATE
Day twenty-six: Mike Espy | Mississippi Senate | 648 Sawbuck Patriots | $12,319 | DONATE
Day twenty-five: John Hickenlooper | Colorado Senate | 632 Sawbuck Patriots | $10,268 | DONATE
Day twenty-four: Eugene DePasquale | PA-10 | 611 Sawbuck Patriots | $7074 | DONATE
Day twenty-three: Jon Ossoff | Georgia Senate | 598 Sawbuck Patriots | $10,835 | DONATE
Day twenty-two: Christy Smith | CA-25 | 565 Sawbuck Patriots | $6488 | DONATE
Day twenty-one: Jaime Harrison | South Carolina Senate | 511 Sawbuck Patriots | $15,081 | DONATE
Evening of RBG's passing: Amy McGrath | Kentucky Senate | 465 Sawbuck Patriots | $33,528 | DONATE
Day twenty: Josh Harder | CA-10 | 465 Sawbuck Patriots | $6883 | DONATE
Day nineteen: Theresa Greenfield | Iowa Senate | 452 Sawbuck Patriots | $8471 | DONATE
Day eighteen: Hiral Tipirneni | AZ-06 | 441 Sawbuck Patriots | $5319 | DONATE
Day seventeen: Ricky Hurtado | NC Statehouse | 430 Sawbuck Patriots | $6340 | DONATE
Day sixteen: Kara Eastman | NE-02 | 420 Sawbuck Patriots | $4893 | DONATE
Day fifteen: Abby Finkenauer | IA-01 | 410 Sawbuck Patriots | $5003 | DONATE
Day fourteen: Carolyn Bourdeaux | GA-07 | 404 Sawbuck Patriots | $5348 | DONATE
Day thirteen: Biden/Harris | the Presidency | 401 Sawbuck Patriots | $38,030 | DONATE
Day twelve: Joe Cunningham | SC-01 | 390 Sawbuck Patriots | $4628 | DONATE
Day eleven: Doug Jones | Alabama Senate | 363 Sawbuck Patriots | $5818 | DONATE
Day ten: Kendra Horn | OK-05 | 348 Sawbuck Patriots | $4143 | DONATE
Day nine: Princess Bride Reunion | Wisconsin | 334 Sawbuck Patriots | $5033 | DONATE
Day eight: Cristina Hale | IN-05 | 324 Sawbuck Patriots | $3898 | DONATE
Day seven: Wendy Davis | TX-21 | 311 Sawbuck Patriots | $4764 | DONATE
Day six: Xochitl Torres Small | NM-02 | 293 Sawbuck Patriots | $4023 | DONATE
Day five: Mark Kelly | Arizona Senate | 268 Sawbuck Patriots | $7020 | DONATE
Day four: Brynne Kennedy | CA-4 | 239 Sawbuck Patriots | $3503 | DONATE
Day three: Max Rose | NY-11 | 208 Sawbuck Patriots | $3018 | DONATE
Day two: Sara Gideon | Maine Senate | 161 Sawbuck Patriots | $7056 | DONATE
Day one: Candace Valenzuela | TX-24 | 109 Sawbuck Patriots | $3563 | DONATE