The DCCC is opening up their floodgates to some serious advertising expenditures in support of Democratic House candidates. Tonight, the committee filed $1.75 million in advertising expenditures in 15 districts:
| District | Incumbent | Media Buy |
|---|---|---|
| AL-02 | Open | $32,645 |
| AL-05 | Open | $44,925 |
| AZ-01 | Open | $82,615 |
| AZ-05 | Mitchell | $101,893 |
| CT-04 | Shays | $70,800 |
| IL-10 | Kirk | $41,066 |
| IL-11 | Open | $40,953 |
| NC-08 | Hayes | $114,848 |
| NH-01 | Shea-Porter | $493,422 |
| NJ-07 | Open | $116,541 |
| NM-01 | Open | $144,011 |
| OH-01 | Chabot | $118,428 |
| OH-15 | Open | $111,899 |
| OH-16 | Open | $152,748 |
| PA-03 | English | $88,552 |
These are some of the first significant media buys that the DCCC has made this fall, including a whopping $500K dumped against Jeb Bradley in NH-01.
The NRCC is continuing to maintain radio silence, because they can’t afford to match pace. I wonder if they’ll do some serious deficit financing in order to stay afloat this year.
More details on these and other expenditures are available in SSP’s Independent Expenditure Tracker. The DCCC has made some of these ads available to view online on their multimedia page.
when it says, for example, that the DCCC spent $72005.56 in support of Martin Heinrich and $72005.56 in opposition to Darren White, that means they spent $144,011.12 total?
Happy to see a half-million against Jeb Bradley. Hopefully that will end this race. Will be very unhappy to see another half million go here in a month.
Happy to see NC-08 get some significant money.
Happy to see PA-03 on the board at all. That’s encouraging.
Unhappy to see AZ-05 on the list. At first thought it was Shadegg/Lord, which would have made me very pleased (I can’t figure out yet if that contest is for real, was hoping to see the D-trip tell me it was), but it’s in defense of Mitchell. I wasn’t expecting him to need it, so that’s a bummer.
And 40k in IL-10 and IL-11? Is that radio or cable or what?
These are some pretty small buys in the aggregate, it seems to me (with the obvious exception of NH-01). If I’m wrong about that someone correct me please.