#15-17. Were paid for after the election on the 12th.
There is about $80K against Giffords during that time frame; after the election.
I Dont know if they pay after the fact, up front, or how the contracts are rendered for services and how fast the media companies need to be paid after the ads run. Without that info you are making assumptions that could go either way.
Huffman spent $500K to lose. Local estimates are up to $800K on the primary.
Kolbe only spent $250K in '04, all of it on sliming Graf.
Go to WWW.Opensecrets.org and look up cd 8
http://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary.asp?cycle=2006&id=AZ08
006 RACE: ARIZONA DISTRICT 8
Gabrielle Giffords (D)
Raised: $1,133,858
Spent: $799,328
Cash on hand: $334,530
Last Report: 8/23/2006
B/L/I pie
LegendPACs: $98,721 (9%)
LegendIndividuals: $1,035,136 (91%)
LegendCandidate: $0 -
LegendOther: $1 (0%)
Randy Graf (R)
Raised: $483,942
Spent: $414,886
Cash on hand: $82,135
Last Report: 8/23/2006
B/L/I pie
LegendPACs: $31,104 (6%)
LegendIndividuals: $452,838 (94%)
LegendCandidate: $0 -
LegendOther: $0 -
this is what I concluded
"From this I conclude that the Democrats wanted to run against Graf and not Huffman. The Republicans wanted Huffman to beat Graff. After the primary, the Republicans gave some mild support to Graf before withdrawing."
Do you disagree with anything there ?