Random bits from around the Internets worth a click (or two):
1. William Beutler of Blog, P.I. follows up his Rightroots v. Big Red Tent v. Slatecard comparison post with further thoughts. Of note, Beutler picks up on our "Defeat Radical Islam" issue badge change that was inspired by his thoughts that we blogged about on Saturday. Beutler missed the fact that we also changed the requirement for a phone number on the donation page but maybe he'll pick that up in a later post. Beutler also makes a suggestion to expand to state and local races, something we're quickly trying to do. And we could use your help.
2. The liberals over at Buckeye State Blog have taken notice of our support for Bob Latta (and helped us make a few changes to our Google AdWords/Analytics account). Thanks. Buckeye State Blog, showing its ignorance in this space, attempts to make an apples-to-apples comparison of Slatecard's support for Latta compared to that of ActBlue and Robin Weirauch. The comparison is looking at amount raised and total number of supporters to that of Actblue. Of course, the problem with this is that liberal Weirauch has been using ActBlue as her website's credit card vendor since the beginning. Take a look at this page on ActBlue, which shows the amount of money raised by DailyKos, SwingState Project, and OpenLeft at just over $15K. The Wes Clark money is interesting to note also. Bottom line is that we still have work to do, but the $1,900 in the door for Latta is $1,900 more than would have been there without the Slatecard community.
3. Writing about Slatecard's early success, DC-based tech evangelist Peter Corbett notes:
It’s interesting to see the Republican camp finally gaining ground
in the online fund raising side of things. Democratic strategists have
been light years ahead in this area. I recently asked a prominent
Republican strategist why this is the case, and he confided in me that
“digital creatives/strategists are the key to online fund raising
prowess. It just so happens that the dems have a monoploy on this kind
of talent as these folks are more liberally leaning.”
It looks like the talent pool may be shifting, albeit slowly.
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