WP: Last-minute money moves: GOP bolsters Hayworth, Allen, Corker, Reynolds

[DeepModem Mom]

WP political blog, "The Fix," by Chris Cillizza
11/4/2006
Last Minute Money Moves in Battle for Congress

The National Republican Congressional Committee was the biggest spender as it tried desperately to hold the GOP House majority -- a prospect that looks more and more dim. The committee dropped more than $1 million for ads in the open Illinois 6th District, which is served by the expensive Chicago media market. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has spent better than $3 million on that seat -- its largest single race expenditure in the country. Polls -- both public and private -- show state Sen. Peter Roskam (R) and Iraq war veteran Tammy Duckworth (D) in a dead heat.

The NRCC also placed an additional $262,000 worth of ads in Arizona's 5th District where Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R) appears to be in a serious danger of losing to former Tempe Mayor Harry Mitchell (D)....The DCCC made only two major ad buys on Friday. The first, which cost $190,000, was in Colorado's 4th District where Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R) is being challenged by state Rep. Angie Paccione (D)....The Democratic House committee also dumped $100,000 more onto television in New York's 25th District where former congressional aide Dan Maffei (D) is running a stronger-than-expected race against Rep. James Walsh (R)....

On the Senate side, the National Republican Senatorial Committee put $345,000 more on television against former Navy Secretary Jim Webb (D) in Virginia. Polling shows the the race between Webb and Sen. George Allen (R) to be tight, but Democrats appear optimistic while Republicans are clearly worried.

The Republican National Committee spent $467,000 on ads hitting Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D) in the Tennessee Senate race and $275,000 on commercials attacking businessman Jack Davis in his race against Rep. Tom Reynolds in New York's 26th District....

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/

[KingFlorez]

1. I guess they still consider Tennessee competitive

[DeepModem Mom]

2. A glimmer there, yeah. I really don't like the idea of Ford losing....

because my sense is that a loss would be a race-based thing. And, unlike some here, I like Ford.

[Donna Zen]

3. Their internal polling

shows only a 1 pt. lead for Corker. I would guess that 1 pt doesn't provide much breathing room.

[DeepModem Mom]

4. Really? Oh, I hope it's that close. nt

[cobaindrain]

5. If they're still throwing money at Corker

Then Ten. is still competitive, I guess those internals that show this race as only Corker +2 (within the moe) are true.

[tnlefty]

6. But, but, but Corker's been yapping lately about how he wishes the

national campaign committee would just stay out. He also loaned himself an additional $2 million just last Friday. He's spent over $14 million as opposed to Ford's slightly over $10 million.

I've pulled 3 nasty mailers from our mailbox during the past couple of days - compliments of the RNC - and the fact that my spouse crossed over and voted for McCain in the '00 primary and he now shows up as a registered (R). We've recieved some nasty robocall, push polls, too.

If Corker didn't welcome what the RNC and the RSCC is doing he'd tell them to put a CORK in it and to cut it all out, but he's another lying repug.