seriously.
Thanks for pointing this out. I’m beginning to think that many freepers don’t think before they talk. RNC dumped almost a half million dollars into this race to hold a seat that went 61% for Bush in 2004.
That we held this seat was to be expected. That it was even this close is troubling. That it was this close, with so much RNC help, is doubly troubling.
The RNC won’t be able to help in other congressional races in ‘08, because it’ll be wisely devoting its energy to stopping Hillary/Obama/Edwards. And the DCCC is far outraising the NRCC right now—so the Libs will have the money, not us.
Unless we can find some fricking conservative credentials and show the American People we mean business, 2008 is going to be very, very ugly.
FWIW, Bush was outspent in 2004 when you add in all the 527s.
Heard it direct from Karl Rove.
The economy?
Illegal immigration?
Engergy?
National security?
I agree that this is nothing to get excited about, but you are way off on the “this close” comments. Spending money doesn’t simply translate into more votes, otherwise we’d all spend a billion dollars each election. There’s a limit.
We held the seat with about the same vote margin as the last election, with a guy that was NOT the incumbent. That’s a good sign that the republicans are back to being republicans.
The spending helps get name recognition for your candidate, but both sides spent enough for that. Turnout was OK, and the republicans were willing to show up as much as the democrats (leading to the reasonable margin of victory).
A couple of years ago the special election to fill Goss’ seat was extremely close — that was a harbinger of doom which came to pass in 2006. Maybe this shows that, with democrats in charge, people are forgetting the corruption of the Taft administration.
LOL. Close? It was a landslide win. Gillmor won in 2006 57% to 43%. He was an incumbent. This was a special election with the Rep running against a Dem who had run for the office in 2002 and 2004. The fact that Latta won 56.8 per cent to 42.9 percent and took all of the counties in the district is a decisive victory and far from troubling. Are you a troll?
>That it was this close,
?? What are you talking about?
A 10% difference is a landslide today.
” That it was even this close is troubling. That it was this close, with so much RNC help, is doubly troubling.”
i actually dont find it as troubling as you. it was a 12% victory - not close in a special election this is not close.
there was no incumbent and the Dem running had run for the seat twice before. she had name recognition as the challenger, support from the national DCCC and unions, and she had the organization already in place from her prior runs. The winner had to overcome all of this right after winning a rather bitter primary battle. Sorry but this seat staying in our column is a solid win despite the money spent.