Listen up, voting matters.

聽好了，投票很重要。

But money talks and in 2020 Democratic voters hammered away like they were on a months long Coke bitch.

但錢是會說話的，在2020年，民主黨選民像吃了幾個月的可樂母狗一樣，一錘定音。

They poured roughly half a billion dollars in the coffers of major Senate candidates in the House.

他們在眾議院主要參議員候選人的庫房裡投入了大約5億美元。

Some Democrats raised 2 to 5 times more than GOP rivals.

一些民主黨人籌集的資金是GOP對手的2到5倍。

And guess what?

你猜怎麼著？

Those candidates won the honor of conceding with dignity to their Republican opponents, plus a concession party with titanium crusted lobster.

這些候選人贏得了向共和黨對手有尊嚴地讓步的榮譽，再加上鈦殼龍蝦的讓步派對。

But the question keeping me up at night, and not just because I drank a single origin Costa Rico cherry bed revenge Desafio Honey coffee is.

但讓我夜不能寐的問題，不僅僅是因為我喝了單一產地的哥斯達黎加櫻桃床報復德薩菲奧蜂蜜咖啡是。

Did the Democrats just piss away half a billion dollars in 2016?

2016年民主黨人就這樣尿掉了5億美金嗎？

The game changed, and not just because I was a background actor in HBO's high maintenance Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump proved that with a national profile, you could take on well funded candidates with small donations.

遊戲改變了，不僅僅是因為我是HBO的高維護伯尼-桑德斯和唐納德-特朗普的背景演員，證明了在全國範圍內，你可以用小額捐款來對付資金充足的候選人。

Word spread like wildfire prayers up to California and in an election that costs around $14 billion money from small donors made up 22% of 2020 fundraising, up from 15% from 2016.

消息像野火祈禱一樣蔓延到加州，在一場耗資約140億美元的選舉中，來自小捐助者的資金佔2020年籌款的22%，高於2016年的15%。

Why, thanks for asking.

為什麼，謝謝你的關心。

And by the way that Bowler hat looks dope on you, the reason is a little something called Technology makes it easier than ever to donate with a click and buy Montana.

順便說一句，那頂鮑勒帽戴在你身上很帥，原因是一個叫科技的小東西讓你比以往任何時候都更容易一鍵捐獻，購買蒙大拿。

Steve Bullock that live laughed, lose by 11% pillow off his campaign wish list.

史蒂夫-布洛克，活生生地笑了，輸了11%的枕頭，從他的競選願望清單中刪除。

So how should you spend your do gooder donor Dollar?

那麼，你應該如何使用你的行善者捐贈美元呢？

The Brookings Institution Darrell West tells Fivethirtyeight that advertising is useful for making voters aware that a candidate or an issue exists at all.

布魯金斯學會達雷爾-韋斯特告訴Fivethirtyeight，廣告對於讓選民意識到某個候選人或某個問題的存在非常有用。

Once you've established that you're really and that enough people are paying attention to you to give you a decent chunk of money, you reach a point of diminishing returns.

一旦你確定了你是真的，並且有足夠多的人關注你，給你一筆不錯的錢，你就會達到一個收益遞減的點。

If a candidate has a big enough profile that you hear about them, their states, voters already know about them, too, and know they're going to be roadkill for Mitch McConnell.

如果一個候選人有足夠大的形象，你聽到他們，他們的州，選民也已經知道他們，並知道他們將成為米奇-麥康奈爾的道路殺手。

Also, by then, it might already be too late.

而且，到那時，可能已經太晚了。

As a Bernie Sanders fundraiser told Buzzfeed, a late influx of money leaves candidates on Lee one rial opportunity to spend it, and that's on TV ads which don't seem to be as effective at turning out voters as field organizing and other types of advertising.

正如伯尼-桑德斯的一位籌款人告訴Buzzfeed，後期湧入的資金給李上的候選人留下了一個rial的機會來花費它，那就是電視廣告，這似乎不像現場組織和其他類型的廣告那樣有效地將選民拒之門外。

So you might be better off using that money on a large audible tip during prolonged eye contact with the barista or donate when it's really needed early and where it's needed down ballot, statehouse and local races where dollars go way further, Democrats are getting out, raised by Republicans in competitive races in the most strategically important state chambers by a factor of 2 to 1 or more.

是以，你可能會更好地將這筆錢用在與咖啡師長時間目光接觸時的大額聽覺小費上，或者在真正需要的早期和需要的地方向下選票時捐贈，州議會和地方比賽，在那裡，美元走得更遠，民主黨人正在出局，由共和黨人在最具戰略意義的州議會的競爭性比賽中以2比1或更多的係數籌集。

Losing these races Let's Republicans re Gerry Mander House Congressional District to their benefit every decade, like clockwork.

失去這些比賽讓我們的共和黨人重新格里曼德眾議院國會區對他們的利益每十年，就像時鐘一樣。

Hashtag I love my curvy district, But enabling concrete changes to people's lives is not why you donate money you donate because it's one of the Onley available expressions of your neutered, self perpetuating powerlessness.

標籤我愛我的曲線區，但使人們的生活發生具體變化並不是你捐錢的原因，你捐錢是因為它是你被閹割的、自我延續的無力感的安利可用表達方式之一。

That's where I come in, donate to the Sparks Accelerator Fund and all disperse your investment to the most winnable state and local races.

這就是我的作用，向火花加速器基金捐款，並將你的投資全部分散到最有勝算的州和地方比賽中。

Eventually, I'll bring the overhead costs down below 94%.

最終，我會把管理費用降到94%以下。

None of the big hitters they're going to donate to me unless I own a Porsche.

除非我擁有一輛保時捷，否則他們沒有一個大人物會捐給我。