Sen. Claire McCaskill takes fight to super PACs as Missouri swings farther right
As one of the U.S. Senate’s most endangered Democratic incumbents, Claire McCaskill knows she’s a top target of the new conservative super PACs that have radically re-ordered the political landscape in 2012.
Independent conservative groups have already spent more than $3 million on television and radio ads in Missouri hoping to pick up one of the four seats Republicans need to take control of the Senate.
McCaskill’s response has been an unconventional and risky strategy — she’s targeting the super PACs right back.
Standard practice suggests voters are rarely interested in arguments over campaign finances, particularly in the face of a tough economy and a political system awash in money on both sides. But McCaskill is betting she can turn the millions spent against her into an advantage, a sign of her political independence. She devoted her first campaign ad for reelection to the argument that out-of-state special interests are trying to knock her out of the Senate in November.
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