Big money flows into 10 battleground Senate races as GOP defends its majority

CNBC ^ | September 15, 2018 | John W. Schoen, Jacob Pramuk

[E. Pluribus Unum]

With less than two months to the crucial November election, a handful of battleground Senate races have captured an outsized share of campaign cash in the 2018 midterm cycle.

As of mid-September, roughly 40 percent of the more than half a billion dollars in direct contributions raised by Senate candidates had flowed into just 10 races. They include contests for open seats in Arizona and Tennessee. The rest are for races in which incumbents are defending seats: in Florida, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Texas and West Virginia.

And some 70 percent of the $185 million in spending by outside groups had gone to the same 10 of the 35 senate races in the 2018 cycle, according to a CNBC analysis of data from the Center for Responsive Politics.

[Deplorable American1776]

I want to see Corey beat Murphy in Connecticut...I hope Trump will visit Connecticut...

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Someone posted that poll claiming John James is trailing by one point on one of the conservative Twitter pages that I follow.

I just went looking for it but couldn’t find it.

I guess it was an outlier.

Why voters would want Stabenow instead of a quality guy like John James is beyond my understanding.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Please see my post # 22 down below.

I wish I could find where I saw that poll but I unfortunately can not.

A quality guy like John James should be beating the pants off Stabenow in the polls.

Like you said, “What in the heck is the matter with these clowns in my state of Michigan?” I don’t get it either.

[frank ballenger]

Thanks for correcting my math to 23% lead for Stabenow. I have an empty section in my head where the math talent was supposed to go.

Your idea of Trump adding link to candidates for fundraising is ingenious. I hope he hears of this idea and does it.