SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS BEAT SIXTEEN MILLION
Angie Nixon raised $975,000 and bought no television at all. Alex Vindman raised $16.3 million. She won by 12.2 points.
Angie Nixon won Florida's Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday with 705,192 votes to Alex Vindman's 552,774 — 56.1 percent against 43.9, a margin of 152,418 with 99 percent counted. She took Miami-Dade, the state's most populous county. She took Broward, where Vindman lives.
Vindman raised more than $16.3 million. Nixon raised $975,000.
Sixteen to one.
On advertising the gap ran wider still. The tracking firm AdImpact counts $2.2 million for him against $60,000 for her — thirty-six to one. Sixty thousand dollars did not buy Nixon a single television advertisement in Florida, so she bought none at all: no broadcast, no cable. She ran the whole campaign on roughly $700,000 and won by 12.2 points. Seven hundred thousand Democrats voted for a candidate who never ran a television advertisement.
Nixon is a state representative from Jacksonville and a former union organiser. She joined the Democratic Socialists of America in June; the organisation has not endorsed her.
