The NRCC posted an additional expenditure of $21,000 in Mississippi today on direct mail and yet another poll. All told, the NRCC has spent about $50,000 on polling in this district. Sure doesn’t bode well for Team Red that they haven’t released any toplines from these polls so far.
The DCCC posted another big investment in Mississippi tonight: $195,000. The expenditures include: $130,000 in media buys, $1200 on phonebanking, $46,000 on direct mail, $12,000 on media production, and $6000 on field organizing for Travis Childers.
The new expenditures bring the total party expenditures in this district to a whopping $1,618,690 for the DCCC, and $1,052,296 for the NRCC. I’ve also been told that Freedom’s Crotch Watch has spent an estimated $450,000 in media buys here — and possibly more, since they haven’t been posting their electioneering reports as required by law.
If you want to make a contribution to Travis Childers, tonight is the last best time for your money to make an impact.
Special election: 5/13.
..not 5/3. Typo.
or is the DCCC spending seeming a little excessive? I know that by beating Davis in this R+10 seat is going to be huge symbolically for Republican expectations in November but wow, $1.6 million sure does seem like a lot…. We better win it!
we don’t NEED to win this seat due to the amount of money spent. I think the DCCC realizes that it has a ton of money and that it will continue to out fundraise the NRCC all the way till November. The more money they spend, the more money the NRCC has to spend in order to stay afloat. The more money the NRCC spends now, the less they will have and the fewer seats they will defend or attack come November. Keeping the NRCC on the defensive now, and making them use thier limited resources now, only helps us. Who cares if we sepnd a couple of million in a loss. Its a seat we can win and we should be going all out for it. A loss won’t cripple us, at this point, even a win may be too expensive for the NRCC.
Of course there’s a strategic element to pouring money into special elections like this to set the stage for further gains in November.
However, I sincerely hope that some competitive progressive candidates get showered with dough from DCCC so that we don’t end up with a caucus even more heavily weighted to the conservative/blue dogs.
Not so much because they won’t vote with us when the chips are down, although of course that’s a big issue, but because our leader in the next session will inevitably be of the Steny Hoyer type.
boys; get a broad view here(forget about MS-01 for a second); look at the whole field; the repukes have laid bare their hand here(this race is HISTORIC; more important than our democratic primary); they are choking in their own vomit from the last 8 years; OUR TIME IS NOW, we have 5 days to become the leaders of our own future(sorry barack);IF we win this race, in BLOOD RED missippi, then shock waves will be felt throughout our great land; do we think they are bringing in DARTH on monday to smell the fresh air? our time is NOW; let’s not wake up next wednesday morn and rue what MIGHT HAVE BEEN. MOUNT UP, AND RIDE TO THE SOUND OF THE GUNS!!!!!!!!!!