Aakash GuptaLead source
A software engineer in Alabama just won a state House seat after spending less on her whole campaign than most people spend on a used car. The Republican incumbent she beat spent $246,000. She spent about $19,600, and she still won by 1,527 votes. I went and did the math on this one. Phillip Rigsby's campaign spent around $22.50 for every vote he got. Allison Montgomery's spent about $1.57 per vote, so every dollar she spent brought in roughly 14 times as many votes as his did. This seat was about as safe as they come for Republicans. They'd held it for 20 years. Democrats didn't even bother putting anybody on the ballot there from 2010 to 2018, a stretch when the seat belonged to Mac McCutcheon, who spent part of it as Speaker of the Alabama House. Rigsby raised 21 times more money than…Read original on X