Looking through the Burnt Orange Report website, I stumbled upon an article that I found to be quite shocking and provided an overwhelming difference between the Democratic and Republican campaigns this year in Texas. The most eye popping number in this blog is $26,000 to $100,000. These numbers are the average amount of financial assistance the incumbent Democrats provided candidates to that of the Republicans, respectively. With a difference of nearly 3 times as much money as the Democrats, it is not just by a stroke of luck that the Republican party had a better campaign and election results than the Democrats. I completely agree with the writer of this blog, David Mauro, in saying the Democrats could have won more seats had they only been provided more support from their incumbent colleagues. Through this blog, Mauro is directly speaking of and towards the incumbent Democrats and is relaying the message to Democrats around the state. I feel Mauro wants to provide the appropriate awareness of the direct effect $75,000 per candidate can have on an election. The Democrats in office only have themselves to blame for such a lack of willingness to provide adequate funding to their colleagues running for office. It is the responsibility of each party member to do their share in assisting their fellow colleagues in the endeavor to become State Representatives, and the Democrats totally bombed that idea during this past election. Mauro's provides a great deal of numbers and evidence to back up his statement, and while rather short in presentation of the idea, I feel he provides a great perspective of a reason the elections were extremely one sided.
http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/10975/texas-democrats-were-reluctant-to-share-campaign-cash
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