If you send an ad out, he's an out-ever changed.

Anybody's mind.

Like, do you get those postcards and go,

oh my gosh, you know what, I can't go for Bob.

The way that you show the community that they're important and

valuable to you is you redirect those resources.

It is more effective if the candidate themselves are saying,

hey, for every $5 you give me,

please spend $5 at a local business or

please donate $5 to the classroom of your choice on donors' shoes.

Or please, you know, give $5 to this, this domestic violence shelter,

instead of giving your money to consultants who will clearly just set it on fire.

This is Sarah and Beth, your listening to Pantzoo Politics,

the home of Grace filled political conversations.

Hello everyone and welcome to this episode of Pantzoo Politics.

Thank you for joining us. We are thinking today about the Senate races coming up in Georgia

and trying to see what we can learn from races in swing states that unfolded in November.

So Tiffany Bond, friend of the podcast, independent candidate for the House of Representatives,

has come on to talk with us about Maine's Senate race.

Famously, Sarah Gideon raised a lot more money and had a lot of enthusiasm,

but Susan Collins ultimately won.

And so Tiffany and Sarah talked about reflections from that race.

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