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<\/a><\/p>\nI gave once to the DCCC, long enough ago that I’m sure they have spent more on postage sending me requests for further donations than I gave them the first time. Their open declaration that their priority is only around incumbent congressfolk further frees me from any sense of obligation to donate to them again.<\/p>\n
I don’t necessarily have a problem with incumbents per se<\/em>. Experience and individual track records can be a good thing. But I don’t feel that it’s in the party’s, or America’s, interest to place all our hopes (and money) on them.\u00a0 Incumbency is not a virtue; nor is preservation of it except for those who benefit from such a mission. And while I expect that, given the truckling over the past few years by national and local GOP politicians to that narcissistic menace in the White House, I’ll be voting for and supporting Democratic candidates in 2020, I can donate quite easily and directly to the ones I care for, rather than hand money to a Preserve the Party Status Quo committee.<\/p>\n Do you want to know more?<\/em><\/p>\n Maybe the DCCC will stop sending me political junk mail if I post this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1142,374,9,358],"tags":[1807,1806,1808],"class_list":["post-138391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections-2020","category-money-politics","category-politics-law","category-poor-citizenship","tag-cronyism","tag-democrats","tag-oldboysandgirlsclub"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Democratic-donkey.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131552,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/15\/on-being-the-losing-candidate.html","url_meta":{"origin":138391,"position":0},"title":"On being the losing candidate","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 15-Sep-16 10:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting article from the last presidential election, looking at how various losers of presidential campaigns -- incumbents or challengers -- felt about being told by the nation, \"Nope, we don't want you.\"Regardless of the politics, it's a surprisingly moving piece. What it's like to lose the election Bob Greene\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":138382,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/22\/election-cycle-or-just-another-opportunity-for-political-junk-mail.html","url_meta":{"origin":138391,"position":1},"title":"Election cycle, or just another opportunity for political junk mail?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 22-Mar-19 10:49pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes!","rel":"","context":"In "~Tweets"","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Capture.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Capture.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Capture.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":40500,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/08\/the-largest-political-party-is-none-of-the-above.html","url_meta":{"origin":138391,"position":2},"title":"The largest political party is "None of the above"","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Jan-14 7:52am","format":false,"excerpt":"That's actually been the case for a while, but the trend seems to be accelerating, with Independents now at 42%, Dems at 31%, and Republicans at 25%. 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