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Democrats lost the big-money game in midterm election
Los Angeles Times ^ | November 8, 2014 | By JOSEPH TANFANI

Posted on 11/09/2014 7:05:40 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Facing a tough midterm election, Democrats put aside some of their remaining scruples about the new age of unlimited campaign spending and courted unions and hedge-fund billionaires for big checks to try to salvage a Senate majority.

They spent a lot of money. But not enough.

This year, in a reversal of 2012, the big-money Democratic donors watched their investments return little on election night Tuesday. Although Republicans outspent them overall, Democrats got beaten even in states like Colorado and North Carolina where they spent the same or even a little more than Republicans.

"We just saw a national tsunami," said Ty Matsdorf, an advisor to the Senate Majority PAC, which spent about $50 million across the country in a mostly futile effort to keep Democrats in office.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; election2014; elections; gop; pacs; republicans; spedings; spending
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To: tanknetter

Blue-dogs don’t go away. It may be a decade of stupid Democratic planning....but in the end...they will still be there. And it puts pressure on the national Democratic Party to find some topics which are agreeable, or find support going to Republicans.


21 posted on 11/09/2014 9:05:21 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: alloysteel

Excellent perspective.


22 posted on 11/09/2014 9:37:22 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: pepsionice
Personally, I’d be kinda upset with the President and the national committee (his people mostly running it). It’s almost like a designed project....put down as many Democrats as possible and bring a massive Republican apparatus to the national capital and to state capitals.

Great observation. It is a designed project. And the dems are stuck in chaos mode, you know, tear down whatever the Republicans have done, get rich and make it "appear" as if they are doing the people's business.

23 posted on 11/09/2014 10:04:29 AM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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To: ExTxMarine

So true! This has become the party of opportunists and liars who have divided American and rolled back the vision of its founders. The nightmare of the Obama legacy lies in his appointment of two radical supreme court left wing judges and the nearly 400 lower federal court appointment eh will have made by 2016.


24 posted on 11/09/2014 10:08:38 AM PST by Steelfish (ui)
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To: pepsionice
It’s almost like a designed project....put down as many Democrats as possible and bring a massive Republican apparatus to the national capital and to state capitals.

Cross Referencing THIS.
25 posted on 11/09/2014 3:36:55 PM PST by tanknetter
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