Posted on 11/15/2014 9:49:01 AM PST by rktman
With all the numbers tallied, out of 251 races, NRA-backed candidates won in 229, over 91 percent of Congressional races in which they endorsed a candidate.
According to the Washington Examiner, NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam explained that the Second Amendment group was able to win at this level because individual NRA members were motivated to vote for freedom. He said: "Our members came out in droves and voted for their rights and their freedom. This was one of the most successful election cycles in a decade."
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The NRA understands the importance of choosing battles wisely. Washington would not have been a favorable battle field. Nevada? that’s a whole different story? Arizona? same thing.
At the same time if they back only safe incumbents the 91% figure is misleading.
I’m unimpressed. The NRA endorsed Joe Manchin. How’d that work out?
There’s a difference between “only backing safe candidates” and allocating valuable resources to where they will serve one’s primary mission best.
The NRA’s primary mission is to preserve the second amendment and they do that by fighting the right battles at the right time in the right way.
Nobody is happy about I594 but, in the end, I think the NRA’s ground game was quite effective and an undeniable boon to the conservative movement and, even more so, to the second amendment movement. fact is, they were a juggernaut of destruction to the progressive agenda.
The bad thing is that the next round will be a general (s)election and there are a bunch of (ahem) republican senate seats that’ll be on the ballot. Will they spend most of their money on them? Will they even try to counter the liars that pushed Washington’s initiative through? We did read the wording on the NV petition and bounced it against the actual initiative. Kinda the same basic message but the petition was so vague that anybody without a brain might have easily been persuaded to sign it. I saw it happen. Counter argument:
“It’s only to make us safer.”
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