Rotten over at F29 did a wrap-up of Massa’s fundraising, and found that an astonshing $300k this cycle was raised by small dollar donors on-line via ActBlue, averaging $50 each. He has a good rebuttal to those who hate on ActBlue:

Some might object to ActBlue on the grounds that it allows influence from outside the district. But that’s true of most of the money in contested Congressional campaigns. Union and corporate PACs contributions, party money and donations from sitting Members of Congress poured into this race. The difference between that money and ActBlue contributions is that the former comes with strings attached.

ActBlue, like Obama’s millions of small donors, is a better way to finance campaigns, and we’ll be seeing more of this kind of financing in future races.

All that those of us in the cheap seats want is better government. No other strings or special favors required. So we scrape together what we can to get better Dems into office. Not as good as publicly financed elections, but a step in the right direction.

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3. Nice start for Massa in the fundraising department
4. Nachbar’s fundraising numbers are up and Steve Minarik is back
5. Massa’s Character