BOOM! Goes the dynamite! DCCC drops $12 million on Dem candiates

[RedEarth]

BOOM! Goes the dynamite! DCCC drops $12 million
by fmrgop
Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 01:19:57 PM PDT
(From the diaries. Only four of those races are defensive ones -- kos)

Last night the DCCC spent some $12 million on the following races:

Arizona 5 235,000
Colorado 4 18,000
Colorado 7 260,000
Connecticut 2 322,000
Connecticut 4 210,000
Connecticut 5 322,000
Florida 22 562,000
Georgia 8 14,000
Georgia 12 75,000
Illinois 6 750,000
Illinois 8 60,000
Indiana 2 114,000
Indiana 8 185,000
Indiana 9 350,000
Iowa 1 165,000
Iowa 3 300,000
Kentucky 4 448,000
Minnesota 6 331,000
New Mexico 1 202,000
New York 20 101,000
New York 24 160,000
Ohio 1 185,000
Ohio 15 244,000
Ohio 18 337,000
Pennsylvania 6 2,000,000
Pennsylvania 7 1,580,000
Pennsylvania 8 1,348,073
Pennsylvania 10 107,000
Vermont 1 69,000
Virginia 2 181,000
Washington 8 355,000
Wisconsin 8 123,000

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/10/19/155030/18

[whistle]

1. Rove claims he has $100 million to spend, do you think it is BS?

[jilln]

12. Well, how much does the federal government take in taxes every year?

I suspect Rove has pretty much all of it at his disposal.

Did you read about the "Office of Faith-Based Initiatives" and how they were used for the GOP?

[whistle]

16. Yep, and I heard the interview on Fresh Air yesterday

[jilln]

17. Oh, I missed that...

Anything new?

[speedoo]

2. Whoah! And nearly half in PA 6, 7 and 8.

Are those Philly and/or Pittsburgh districts? Anyone know, off hand?

[bryant69]

3. That's pleasent

Nice to know that we have a little oomph.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Monkeyman]

4. Dam nothing for the 14th John closed the gap

www.john06.com if he had some money he win

[never_get_over_it]

8. Which is why I will NOT contribute

to the DCCC - individual candidates for me - for Christ sake couldn't they give him something...bone heads

John has closed the gap to 10 pts - Hastert hasn't won by that little in YEARS....

[Monkeyman]

9. Ya and it closer then that John about 7 point away

[never_get_over_it]

10. Thanks

good news last one I heard it was 10 pts - see John is making progress just think if the DCCC poured some funding into the race....

[riderinthestorm]

14. Jayzus, John is overlooked again!

WTF??

Give me a fucking break (and him too) dammit. Is the DCCC just expecting fatass Denny to resign?

[robinlynne]

5. I think that money should go to file lawsuits against the voter purges, an

and election fraud. The dem party is still pretending this is a normal election. Don't they get reality at all?

[acmejack]

6. 50 state strategy...

[David Zephyr]

11. His name is Howard.

And he represents the "Democratic wing of the Democratic Party".

50 state strategy!

[saracat]

7. And nothing again for Herb Paine, though he has now gotten Shadegg to

debate. They are also giving too little to Herry who is tied with Hayworth! I will not give the DCCc any more money.Give it directly to the candidates. Please help Herb. He is doing well on his own with no help from anyone! They don't even have him on the radar. It takes a lot of moxie to take on Shadegg and the party is just ignoring him. What a shame. He is the best candidate we have had in yers.Bright articulate and with a few bucks he could win! He even got an endoresement from the Arizona Republic!

[undeterred]

13. Nothing for Bryan Kennedy, who is running against Sensenbrenner`

but $123,000 for the rich doctor upstate who already has $2,000,122

[MrCoffee]

15. The WA-8 is a good race to spend on.

[dkofos]

18. Nothing for Texas

We must be a lost cause

[mucifer]

19. there's 435 seats and guess what? Lots more than expected are now close.

12 mil is not enough to give to EVERYONE. The good news is there are lots of close races and our job is to spend as many hours as possible volunteering for these campains and less time complaining stuff on line til the elections are over and we have more time for being angry at the dems when we can't do anything about it. We can spend our own time and money if we have it and not rely on the DSCC.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

20. The GOP just dropped $175000 into PA-04...but the DCCC responds w/ ZERO?

But western Pennsylvania, or at least the Pittsburgh-area 4th District, is getting into the act as well. The contest between three-term Republican Rep.:puke: Melissa A. Hart and Democrat Jason Altmire, a former hospital association executive and congressional aide, now appears sufficiently competitive to merit a change to CQPolitics.com’s rating of the race, to Leans Republican from Republican Favored.

While the “Leans” rating means Hart still maintains an edge in the race, it also means that Altmire is waging a tougher fight than earlier expected and that an upset is a more plausible possibility. The previous “Favored” rating suggested that Altmire was a more distinct underdog.

Interesting. Looks like it's a real race.

Here's the important part:
According to a filing with the Federal Election Commission, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) on Tuesday reported spending $163,000 to produce and air a television ad opposing Altmire — one day after the House GOP campaign committee reported spending $10,569 to poll the district. (Altmire recently released a poll taken for his campaign that showed him trailing Hart by just 48 percent to 44 percent).
That's almost $175,000 for a "safe" seat? It puts a lie to any utterance coming from the Republicans about how they're "double digit" ahead of Altmire, doncha think?

http://2politicaljunkies.blogspot.com/2006/10/proof-theyre-getting-nervous-in-hart.html

:shrug:

[Clark2008]

21. Deleted. Congressional campaign. Sorry.

[DemoTex]

22. Is this a required disclosure? If not, why tip hand to Rove?

Spend the money, yes. But keep Rove guessing as to where. Now he knows where, when, and how much.

:scared:

[undeterred]

23. Fuck the DCCC. I will never give them a dime.