Posted on 09/08/2010 3:13:32 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
The Dems' Cold Cash Calculus
by Samuel P. Jacobs
With a GOP landslide forecast, the national party faces tough choices on where to spend and who to cut loose. Samuel P. Jacobs on the anxiety of incumbents who may soon lose their lifeline.
Over the weekend, The New York Times published a story claiming that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee was set to bail on a number of House colleagues who seemed likely to lose their seats to Republican challengers. Rep. Chris Van Hollen, the committee chairman, quickly denied that any sort of retrenchment was under way. Still the story wasn’t a happy one for Democratic campaign workers, facing down an already brutal fall election season.
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The calculus is pretty simple. With so many tight races, there’s only so much money to go around. Even though the DCCC had $36 million on hand in July (almost $14 million more than the National Republican Congressional Committee), there’s an abundance of needy candidates. All signs point that group growing over the coming weeks.
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Correction: the source is Daily Beast. Again my apologies.
Hope Dingy Harry Reid is thrown under the bus.
Hmmm..sounds like Politcal “Death Panels”
LOL. You nailed it.
So long, democrat party petty tyrants.
They’ve got plenty of dough. Besides the “official” cash, there is the union money, the Soros money and the FREE ADVERTISING they get from 99.9% of the media: papers, magazines, network tv, and local tv “news”.
superior analysis, ken. superior.
If harry was in the House, I’m sure he would be.
DCCC is for RAT Reps.
>The calculus is pretty simple. With so many tight races, there’s only so much money to go around. Even though the DCCC had $36 million on hand in July (almost $14 million more than the National Republican Congressional Committee), there’s an abundance of needy candidates. All signs point that group growing over the coming weeks.<
has anyone given any money directly to the NRCC?? Cause i know i sure as hell haven’t- i’ve sent candidates around the nation money and anytime the GOP calls me looking for a handout i tell them directly they will not get a dime of my money as long as they waste it on clowns like scofazza and crist rather i will directly donate to candidates who best represent my principles...the GOP called me a dozen times a week yet has not called me in several weeks...
I’m pretty sure our very own little stuck-on-stupid girl, Betsy Marxy (Rat CO-4), here in eastern Colorado has already been given her last rites by the DCCC. She’s behind in recent polls by 20 points, and she seems like she’s just given up on trying to campaign effectively. It’s been puzzling to a few of us as to why. It dawned on me today that the DCCC must have already told her she had been thrown under the bus.
I guess Dingy Harry has not been shut out of funds for Dem Senate races since, inexplicably, his is still close.
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