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Posted on 10/19/2014 1:17:23 PM PDT by Din Maker
With less than four weeks until Election Day, the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s independent expenditure arm is shifting resources to increase its investment in six states, including South Dakota and Georgia. The NRSC has moved $1 million to South Dakota, plus another $1.45 million to Georgia.
In South Dakota, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee made a $1 million television ad buy this week, on the heels of tightening poll numbers that showed its candidate, Rick Weiland, gaining ground. In Georgia, a new poll suggests a runoff is likely.
The NRSC also is upping its investment in four other states: Alaska, Colorado, Iowa and New Hampshire. Those four states represent an expansion of the map for the GOP into states where Democrats were favored to win earlier in the cycle.
The committee will spend an additional $1 million in Alaska, $1.5 million in Colorado, $1.25 million in Iowa and $1.2 million in New Hampshire.
“These additional investments are part of our overall strategy to win and build a new Senate Republican majority,” said Ron Bonjean, a consultant to the NRSC’s independent expenditure unit.
Conspicuously absent from that list is Kansas, where GOP Sen. Pat Roberts is in a tight race with independent Greg Orman. The NRSC has not yet spent funds to help Roberts. NRSC Chairman Jerry Moran, also a Kansan, suggested in conversations with reporters Thursday in Topeka that the party might do so soon.
Also missing is North Carolina, where Democrats are overwhelmingly outspending Republicans, and NRSC has not yet reserved air time for the final two weeks before the election. Republican Thom Tillis has narrowly trailed Sen. Kay Hagan in all public polls.
Whassup with not one penny so far from the NRSC for Pat Roberts in Kansas? They must feel certain that Roberts can, and will, win it without their help. Understandable. It’s inconceivable that a Republican would lose a Senate seat in Kansas.
NRSC trying to pump up the RINO’s?
If Pat Roberts is a conservative, the NRSC ain’t spending nothing for him. It is that simple.
not a dime to Cam Cavasso , to defeat little Brian Schatz in Hawaii
Nothing for Michigan either. Crap.
Hey, we don’t need the NRSC to win. We conservatives can win without them.
Michigan was pulled back about 10 days ago.
Joni Ernst is a RINO?
Pat Roberts may be a terrible politician but his voting record is pretty damn conservative.
South Dakota, it’s a shame this is even close.
South Dakota, it’s a shame this is even close.
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Well, the GOP candidate Mike Rounds is a “mixed bag”; some good, some bad. It’s a shame the GOP couldn’t have gotten a candidate with no baggage.
Both houses are going red.
I agree with you 100% percent....you are right on target!!! The pubbies will win eight to twelve senate seats and 17 seats in the house!!! If you listen to anything that RollCall puts out...you are probably high on reefer...or just plain insane!!!
Not surprised at Georgia.
I’ve been warning Free Republic readers about this seat for the last year.
The Democrat candidate has name recognition going for her, and if Democrats find a way to turn out Black voters, the GOP can lose this.
The last three polls show a tie, +3, and +1 for the Democrat.
Georgia is a GOP seat, so a loss there means we would need to win 8 Democrat seats to gain a Senate majority.
But once they have that majority, they'll EFF us.
You heard it here first:)
Re: “The pubbies will win eight to twelve senate seats and 17 seats in the house!!!”
If your dreams do not come true, please promise that you will not:
(1) Blame Conservatives for “staying home.”
(2) Blame Democrats for voter fraud.
Conservatives won’t be staying home. Fake conservatives may be, if their favorite Democrat didn’t win the primary.
Yeah, the Obamanation campaign against the US, which includes Ebola, Fast and Furious, inciting riots in Florida, Missouri, Oakland, etc, is tipping the great middle toward Pubbies.
I may be right ....and I may be wrong....we shall see within a few days time!!!
http://fivethirtyeight.com/interactives/senate-forecast/
Which Republican are we trying to defeat today?
Tillis NC?
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