Morning Digest: The Koch brothers say 'Bon voyage!' to Wisconsin's Ron Johnson

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Morning Digest: The Koch brothers say 'Bon voyage!' to Wisconsin's Ron Johnson
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Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest

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• WI-Sen: While Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson has trailed in the polls in his rematch with Democrat Russ Feingold, Republicans sounded prepared to spend big to try and help him win in the fall. However, Team Red appears to have finally decided that Johnson is just a poor investment. On Wednesday, the news broke that Freedom Partners Action Fund, a group close to the Koch brothers, had canceled their $2.2 million fall TV reservation. Freedom Partners soon explained that they "are realigning our television advertising strategy to ensure maximum impact across key Senate races." That's sort of like breaking up with someone by telling them you are "strategically redeploying to another lover."

Only the day before, the NRSC confirmed that, while they weren't canceling their own ads, they would be pushing their reservation from August and September to the final three weeks of the contest. While the group said they were only changing the timing of their investment, it's a pretty dire sign for Johnson that his allies plan to only run ads during the last weeks of the race. Johnson already trails Feingold in cash-on-hand $7.2 million to $6.3 million. Johnson is wealthy, but he hasn't poured his own money into his re-election campaign: We'll see if Johnson's calculation changes now that his own party has essentially cut him loose.

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