The nationalization of the election was the rebuke? I guess I ain't woke enough to comprehend.
The defeated Republicans in those districts, by contrast, collected only about one-third of their itemized funds from outside their states, according to a USA TODAY analysis of funding data collected by the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics.
That doesn’t include all small-dollar donations which don’t have to be identified by donor, but which were also maximized by Democrats this year. One fundraising vehicle, for example, allowed Missouri freelance writer Robin Burks to give $4.68 a month ‐ or 1 cent to each of the 435 House races and 33 Senate races contested in November.
Fascinating. But illogical, Captain.
Top large-dollar contributors to the winning Democrats included not just regular Democratic mega donors like Florida financier S. Donald Sussman and billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer.
"We were all in on flipping the House," said Steyer, who also spent millions of dollars mobilizing voters. "That was our No. 1 bottom line.
First we flip the House, then we impeach the Orange Man.
But they also included Seth Klarman, the head of a Boston-based private investment firm who used to give to primarily Republican causes.
Seth has a personal fortune estimated at US$1.50 billion. In 2015, Klarman was listed as the 15th highest earning hedge fund manager in the world.
And top donors included people like Barbara Karplus, a semi-retired teacher from California with little history of political giving, who cut back on her classroom hours to focus on researching which candidates to support. Among those she backed were 30 of the Democrats in the districts that flipped. She gave them more than $100,000 combined.
Wow. My sister should've taught in her district! Barbara hasn't made it to Wikipedia, however.
The Democrats who flipped GOP seats raised a combined $236 million compared to $142 million raised by the Republicans. On average, about 51 percent of itemized contributions to Democrats came from outside their states. That’s despite the fact that House candidates typically draw the most money from in-state donors, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.Then there was the Senate, where the Dim blew $70 million to try to unseat Ted Cruz in Texas.