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NRCC, DCCC Each Pump Millions Into Races
Woah, another huge money drop -- on both sides of the aisle. The NRCC sank $4,077,649 into a bunch of House races late today, new FEC filings show. What races is the NRCC most worried about? Well, $355,812 went into Arizona's fifth against Dem Harry Mitchell. $455,405 went into Connecticut's fifth against Dem Chris Murphy. $540,993 went into Illinois' eighth against Dem Melissa Bean. More of the cash breakdown here. Meanwhile, the DCCC pumped around $8 million into dozens of House races -- including a whopping expenditure of over $700,000 into Illinois' sixth on behalf of Dem Tammy Duckworth.
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October 24, 2006 11:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
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I sure hope Tammy Duckworth wins. That kind of money here in the IL-10th would likely put Dan Seals (D) over the top against incumbant Mark Kirk (R).
Far be it for me to tell the DCCC where to spend its money. But my money goes directly to the candidates (not to the DCCC). Oh, and a little to Al Franken's Midwest Values PAC.
-- ARG
October 25, 2006 7:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
I put together the following list of candidates that I think the online netroots community should support in these final two weeks before the election, based on two criteria:
1) the closeness of the race in public polls, and
2) the relatively low financial stakes of the contest (thereby making it a lot easier to influence the race with a pool of relatively small individual donations).
The following races feature candidates with less than $500,000 combined in cash on hand, listed from least combined cash on hand to most. For each candidate, I list cash raised this quarter and then cash on hand, and at the end I put in parentheses the total cash on hand for both candidates and the latest poll result from TPM Election Central (as of about a week ago, sorry I haven't had time to update):
1) CO-05:
Dem Jay Fawcett: $146,657; $106,317
GOPer Doug Lamborn: $286,214; $92,706 ($199,023, poll 37%-37%)
2) FL-13:
GOPer Vern Buchanan: $1,124,647; $134,533
Dem Christine Jennings: $429,921; $65,431 ($199,464, poll 44%-47%)
3) OH-18:
GOPer Joy Padgett: $504,978; $256,487
Dem Zack Space: $419,283; $146,678 ($403,165, poll 41%-48%)
4) NV-02:
GOPer Dean Heller: $383,766; $279,655
Dem Jill Derby: $340,849; $183,635 ($436,290, poll 45%-42%)
5) WI-08:
GOPer John Gard: $186,282; $284,884
Dem Steve Kagen: $381,665; $160,432 ($445,316, poll 46%-48%)
6) OH-02:
Dem Victorai Wulsin: $376,337; $263,471
GOP Rep. Jean Schmidt: $332,863; $224,358 ($487,829, poll 48%-45%)
Note that most of the races are within a few points according to the most recent poll.
Any interest in spreading the word and making this group the six candidates that the Netroots will support in the final 21 days leading up to November 7???
(Not to mention that if some Dem 2008 presidential candidate spread $1M around these 6 candidates (or other Senate or House incumbents), it would likely have a huge effect!)
October 25, 2006 11:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
"DCCC pumped around $8 million" link broken. By the looks of it the NRCC already has enough money in the pipeline for running attack ads on Duckworth ad nauseum. Tammy really needs that cash to get her commercials in heavy rotation. It's hard breaking thru the iron brained ignorance of people who absorb the Repub msg thru constant repetition of teevee commercials with phonebanking.
October 25, 2006 3:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
The link following the words "cash breakdown" is incomplete.
October 25, 2006 4:39 PM | Reply | Permalink