Posted on 09/26/2014 3:31:30 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
A restless electorate and a target-rich map have the GOP on the cusp of winning the Senate majority. But with fewer than 40 days until November, Republican campaigns are suddenly confronting a problem that undermines high hopes of victory: a sudden and serious lack of cash.
GOP campaigns, political committees, and—above all—the party's outside groups are scrambling to raise money, worried that Democrats and their allied groups are poised to heavily outspend them on TV ads in the final weeks before Election Day. Concerns run deepest about October, when Democratic groups are on track to pour millions of dollars into a handful of races that will determine which party controls the Senate. In some of those same races, Republicans have reserved little or no airtime.
The disparity has led to mounting frustration among political operatives running Republican campaigns. And they are issuing a blunt warning: In a year with a half-dozen tight Senate contests, the party could easily squander most of them.
"I am worried about it for the first time in a long time," said Rob Jesmer, who ran the National Republican Senatorial Committee in 2012 and 2010 and continues to work on behalf of Senate campaigns now. "I think in some of these places, it could be the determining factor."
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McConnell probably won’t be back.
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From your keyboard to God’s ears. But, he is leading in the polls by about 4 points. Not real good for a 30 year Senator and the Minority Leader of the Senate.
You know what? I just had a thought. I bet if some folks in Mississippi formed a “Republicans AGAINST Cochran” PAC and started sending out e-mails asking for money, Karl Rove, Mitch McConnell and Haley Barbour would crap down both legs. And, they’d probably get a lot of money. I’d whip out my credit card in a second.
I hope that the true Conservatives in Mississippi do REMEMBER on Nov. 4th, what Thad Cochran, Haley Barbour and the GOP Establishment did to a fine, young Conservative named Chris McDaniel and how they disenfranchised thousands and thousands of true Republicans and Conservatives by paying Democrats to vote for Cochran in the run-off. A pox on all their houses.
I give to the SCF and their site, mailings etc. certainly imply they support Joni - but I get daily emails saying she needs $. Who’s lying?
(Sorry I know I didn’t answer your question.)
It might be that Ernst campaigned as a conservative to get the nomination and is now running as a moderate in the general. She’s being outspent, letting attack ads go mostly unanswered, and backing away from conservative positions. Her motorcycle, shooting skills, and pork-cutting humor are nowhere to be found now.
Like Iowa Coach Kirk Ferentz, she’s playing not to lose.
The SCF may be just unenthusiastic about her after a closer look.
Fortunately, Iowans can like boring, and Braley is a very weak candiddate.
So, what’s your gut feeling on the Iowa Senate Race? Will that idiot, Braley, win?
In the multiple states campaigns we see ads for around here, ol’ Mitch is the only Pub candidate who seems to be running ads at anywhere near the rate the Dem is, or with anything like equal effect. It would appear that most Pubs not only don’t have money, most have not learned that the deer in the headlights bit only gets them run over.
Ernst will probably win because Braley is a poor candidate and lacks Harkin’s appeal to eastern Iowa Catholics.
Here’s an example of how botched the campaign against Braley is. Everyone’s heard of his insults to Iowa famers, but just before that, he said to a group of Texas lawyers, “[I]f you help me win this race you may have someone with your background, your experience, your voice, someone who’s been literally fighting tort reform for thirty years, in a visible or public way, on the Senate Judiciary Committee.”
That damning statement has been left completely unexploited by the Ernst campaign. And he claims to have already cut a deal to get a Judiciary seat! What did he give up to get that deal?
And he claims to have already cut a deal to get a Judiciary seat! What did he give up to get that deal?
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Who did Braley cut a deal with for a Judiciary seat? Surely not Joni Ernst.
Mitch McConnell is in a battle, but I think he will pull out a win. What say ye?
That deal would be cut with Harry Reid. The Ernst campaign refuses to exploit this.
I believe the polls are underestimating the level of anger in Ky against
McConnell. If this vaunted wave does not appear soon, mcConnell is a goner.
Off to Trent Lott’s DC lobbying firm.
That deal would be cut with Harry Reid. The Ernst campaign refuses to exploit this.
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Well, just damn! She was probably advised so by the GOP Establishment sissies. But, why would Reid cut a deal with Braley? Does he think Braley is NOT going to win the Senate Race?
Possibly the Bar Association or Trial Lawyers Association have told Reid that Braley is their boy, whose job it will be to protect current torts and legislating from the bench.
A huge chunk of Braley’s campaign money comes from trial lawyers.
I was thinking that “almost” exact same thing yesterday mountain man. The polls are NOT taking into consideration the Tea Partiers, True Conservatives and every “Joe Six-pack” who ANGRY and just fed up with McConnell and will NOT vote in the Senate race either by staying home or skipping that race on the ballot. Now, they won’t tell the pollsters that, but there is a great number of people in KY, and in Mississippi as well, who are “flying under the radar” and they’ll drop the bomb on Nov. 4.
No, they won’t tell pollsters that.
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