Sean Gailmard was quoted in Mission Local:
The San Francisco general election on March 5 drew in a stunning amount of cash: Over $11 million raised on the various ballot measures and candidates, much of it by a clique of wealthy individuals. But how far did that money go to lure voters in the DCCC race?
The lack of correlation between donations and vote-getting does not indicate money has no effect, but that an individual candidate’s fundraising was less relevant than the fundraising of the slate as a whole.
Other confounding factors, such as popularity and experience, are “extremely hard to observe and isolate,” added Sean Gailmard, a professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
The full article is available here.