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ActBlue: Today’s the day

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One prominent PAC goes by the axiom (and acronym) that Early Money Is Like Yeast — it makes dough rise. That’s why today is an important day to give money to Congressional candidates in NH, VT, RI, and NY: August 23 is the contributions reporting deadline to the FEC  for candidates in those states. A good fundraising report attracts more bucks and adds to the viability of that candidacy.

Blue Mass. Group’s ActBlue* page features candidates from these four states:

  • NH: Paul Hodes, who is taking on Republican incumbent Charlie Bass in eastern New Hampshire. Polling is all over the map on this one, so a good fundraising showing may well change  the complexion of this race.
  • Kirsten Gillibrand, running in upstate New York’s 20th district, next to western MA. She’s running against a classic DeLay toady John Sweeney, who has gone extremely negative recently.
  • Sheldon Whitehouse is Rhode Island’s former Attorney General. He’s running against Lincoln Chafee, the moderate incumbent who’s been tugged to the right by a misplaced sense of party loyalty.
  • Bernie Sanders is a true progressive (though technically not a Democrat) running for Senator from Vermont. (Here’s his campaign blog.) He’s known for his town meetings featuring real give-and-take with his constituents. Running against right-wing pigeon Rich Tarrant.
  • UPDATE: Peter Welch is running for Bernie’s old at-large House seat in Vermont. He’s facing a surprisingly tough challenge in a state that really ought to go blue.

If you were thinking of pitching in for these candidates at some point, today would be a great day.

(And unlike PBS, we’re not going to hold your normal BMG content hostage in order to beat you into giving: “Give now — OR IT’S “THE TEN TENORS” AGAIN!!!”)

UPDATE: By the way, Lieberman and Lamont are now statistically tied in the general election in CT. How ’bout that blogosphere? You think this stuff makes a difference?

*For those of you who don’t know, ActBlue is a terrific organization which collects campaign contributions on behalf of Democratic candidates all over the country — and allows users to make their own pages with preferred candidates.

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  1. Democratic candidate for the House seat formerly held by Sanders in VT.  Has a competitive race with Martha Rainville (probably) on the Republican side.  Has raised over $1m which is good, but not as well known as Bernie and can use the visibility.

  2. I just got an email from the Hodes campaign showing Bass leading by only 43-42, well within the margin of error.  The polls are indeed “all over the map”, and internal polls are only internal polls, but this race is certainly contested and well worth your support (especially before the Wednesday reporting deadline).

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    The campaign also says it’s concentrating on name recognition,  the biggest problem for Hodes identified in the disappointing UNH poll.

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    (And the VT-AL race is also worth supporting.  I drove through Vermont Sunday and am about to do so again — I saw signs for Sanders and Tarrant (VT-SEN) but none for Welch or Rainville in VT-AL.)

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