FundraThis week we learned a little about Interest Groups and the effect that they have on political parties. Interest groups are important to campaigning and political parties because they raise a lot of awareness and fundraising for the candidate they feel will help their cause. The level of fundraising for Canseco and Rodriquez seem to be on two completely different levels, with Canseco easily leading.
When you visit Canseco's facebook, he has lots of posts updating people on various fundraising goals and how much he has raised. He also has people actually asking him where they can go to donate money in order for him to have more money for his campaign. Although whether or not these individuals are part of interest groups, they do comment on certain topics such as "border control" and claim they will fund raise because they believe Canseco can help the issue. Another interesting aspect of Canseco's fundraising is that not only does he ask for money for his own campaign, but he also asks for money to be able to bring more awareness to Ciro's faults by exposing his temper tantrums through the media.
Ciro's fundraising on the other hand seems to be quite lackluster. Based off on the little information I can find about him on the internet, it seems like his fundraising or campaigning is virtually non-existent. I would love to get in contact with him, and ask him about how he feels about this. I wonder if because of his general unpopularity and losing in the polls to Canseco, maybe he's finding that it's difficult to garner any support for him. The one thing that Ciro seems to be consistent with is, updating his website as to what he has voted on in Washington.
So, it will be very interesting to see if this like many other campaigns will be heavily impacted by the amount of funds raised by each candidate. According to the Huntington Post Canseco has raised about 50,000$ whilst Rodriquez's fundraising is so insignificant it doesn't even come up on the website. Fundraising Funds
I wonder if theres a correlation between this and the fact that Canseco's leading in the polls.
This is interesting, I wonder if Canseco is leading in the polls because he has the money, or if because Canseco is leading in the polls Ciro feels as though he is fighting a losing fight and it would be better to not waste peoples money. Which then makes me wonder if that is the case why is he even running?
ReplyDeleteWithout any knowledge of this campaign I am quite confident that Canseco is the incumbent in this race? Do you think that could be the leading factor in him receiving so much money for his campaign? You should check out opensecrets.org, I think you'll be surprised about what you find about Rodriquez's fund-raising.
ReplyDeleteNot knowing much about this race either, it seems as if this is going to be a landslide. The fact that you had trouble finding information online about how to donate to Ciro's campaign is very odd. Considering how difficult it is for candidates to raise money, you would think that there would be ample opportunities to do so all over any candidate's website.
ReplyDeleteIt seems counterproductive and a little "sketchy" for lack of a better term, that a candidate would not have an area available for donations on their website. I think this will get interesting closer to the election.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with BN and GH about the questionable fundraising of Circo. Without a lot of knowledge about this campaign also, I would agree with BSchramm that Canseco appears to be the incumbent and perhaps Circo is a rookie candidate who isn't quite sure on how to run a campaign. While this are all assumptions I feel that could be a possible explanation for Circo's odd lack of fundraising.
ReplyDeleteFirst, I would like to say that i agree with Jess that there may be an explanation for Ciro's lack of fundraising or lack of information on his fundraising. Second, i think that Canseco's updates on facebook is a very clever strategy that seems to be working very well considering there are people asking where they can submit donations. Facebook has become so popular in society these days that i would not be surprised if it was the reason a candidate was able to greatly increase the amount of money raised toward their campaign.
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