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Does anyone know what the significance of the $5 million goal is? Did they look at the political landscape and decide that was how much money they needed to ma

• _up 12y ago
  If you click the mayday button you get this page: https://mayday.us/ https://mayday.us/ and this setence: "For 2014, our goal is $12 million. With that money, we will make fundamental reform the key issue in five congressional races. And win." Also they raised 1 Mio before and everything gets doubled by individual donnors.
• zedadex 12y ago
  > If the group succeeds in raising its goal of $12 million by the end of June, it intends to use the 2014 campaign cycle as a testing ground – targeting five House races to demonstrate whether it can propel candidates who are committed to a system in which small donors have a much greater influence. (The group will announce its targets later this summer.) Considering their plan is to target and win 5 specific races, they're probably basing the number on previous campaign expenditures of those five 'targets,' planning to outspend them.