This post is as good a place for a Carrick open thread as any, so:
Carrick recently got $1.37M in ad support from Protect Our Future, Sam Bankman-Fried’s PAC (source). This seems good; Carrick’s campaign has relatively high marginal expected value per dollar.
(But money can’t really buy US House elections, and crypto-billionaire-PACs come off as icky no matter how friendly SBF is (and earned media matters a lot more than ads, and it’s possible that voters just hear the crypto-billionaire-PAC part), and I hope this wasn’t a big part of Carrick’s plan: I commented to a friend a while ago that I don’t see how Carrick can win, but he apparently thinks he can win, so he likely has information I don’t, but I really hope it’s not just expecting money from SBF’s PAC since money doesn’t do a ton in House elections.)
My expectation is still heavily for (rival candidate) Salinas, unfortunately.
This post is as good a place for a Carrick open thread as any, so:
Carrick recently got $1.37M in ad support from Protect Our Future, Sam Bankman-Fried’s PAC (source). This seems good; Carrick’s campaign has relatively high marginal expected value per dollar.
(But money can’t really buy US House elections, and crypto-billionaire-PACs come off as icky no matter how friendly SBF is (and earned media matters a lot more than ads, and it’s possible that voters just hear the crypto-billionaire-PAC part), and I hope this wasn’t a big part of Carrick’s plan: I commented to a friend a while ago that I don’t see how Carrick can win, but he apparently thinks he can win, so he likely has information I don’t, but I really hope it’s not just expecting money from SBF’s PAC since money doesn’t do a ton in House elections.)
My expectation is still heavily for (rival candidate) Salinas, unfortunately.