Democrats Text You for Cash. Most of It Never Buys Ads.

Summary

If you’re a Democrat with an email address or a phone, you get these pleas: A candidate needs your dollars. Democracy needs your dollars. It doesn’t have to be much — but it can’t be nothing. When you donate, you may feel pleased with yourself; when you don’t, it can be hard to ignore the creeping sense of guilt that you’re not doing your part. But what if neither the pride nor the guilt is really warranted? What if, as the scholars Jake Grumbach and Adam Bonica demonstrate in The New Republic ’s revealing November cover story , most of the money raised goes toward raising money? What if the…

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