“The Fix“:
The National Republican Senatorial Committee has decided to pull its television advertising out of Louisiana, a decision that drastically reduces the party’s chances at its lone takeover opportunity in this election cycle.
The ads, according to buy information obtained by The Fix, will end next Tuesday — two weeks before the Nov. 4 election between Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) and state Treasurer John Kennedy (R).
NRSC communications director Rebecca Fisher offered no comment when asked about the move to pull down the ads. […]
The NRSC’s decision to pull their resources out of the state makes Kennedy’s task significantly more difficult. Those familiar with the Kennedy campaign argue he will have enough resources to win the race but with Landrieu and the DSCC now pounding him on television it’s hard to see how the NRSC’s pull out as anything but bad news for Kennedy’s chances.
Remember how doomed Mary Landrieu was supposed to be this year? Remember how giddy Republicans were when Karl Rove himself poached turncoat Democrat John Kennedy to run against Landrieu? Remember when certain prognosticators called this race “a tossup all the way until election day”?
Looks like we can finally close the book on all of that.
We have no endangered senators this cycle. She’s off my “Endangered” list.
By I couldn’t have scripted a worse run campaign than Kennedy’s.
is the now widespread rumor that the NRSC is about to pull out of Colorado, leaving Bob Schaffer in the trashheap next to Gilmore and Pearce. (I’m waiting until this is a bit more substantiated before fleshing it out on the front-page, though.)
Although it’s still at the very credible rumors stage.
I’m bummed by this; I’d much rather the Rs keep throwing money at LA and CO than move it to GA and MN. On the upside, I think the Rs have become pessimistic in Oregon and North Carolina, which is great. I hope nothing tilts back towards the Rs in the next three weeks, because about six senate seats hang in the balance right now.
Also notice that it’s the challengers and not the incumbents getting cut loose. There’s only two of those; I wonder when or if Sununu gets bailed on. I’m also curious to see what happens in Alaska. I’m pretty bummed about that race, what with the total bungling of the prosecution by DOJ.
They’re playing much smarter and not wasting money in places where there is no chance.
Smart move from the NRSC, which is surprising considering who we are talking about.
Republicans and pulling out right and left. I’ve got the full list up
I think I’ll drop the DSCC and Jim Martin another $100.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/…
A snipet from the story…
This story just keeps getting worse and worse. I hope this fool loses in a landslide. Glad I didn’t donate to him.
It’s especialy funny how many aides are so willing to sell him out. He must truely be a pain to work for.
And remember, we have pretty much zero seats up in 2010 unless we get some retirements (HI could be bad news with Lingle) so we could basically have gone through the entire cycle of re-elections and just completely raped their numbers while we lost nothing. Hahahhahaha. We’ll take like 20-25 of their seats in 6 years and they’ll take 0.
think Landrieu will win fairly easily this time, that being said the NRSCC has been running some slamming and over-the-top negative ads lately, and a lot of them. Some of them are so conservative its hard to believe, and they also tried to make Kennedy the “change” candidate. One ad claimed Landrieu tried to make it to where illegal immigrants got paid more than American Workers and said “Landrieu’s on the wrong side of the fence” with a picture of the border fence between the US and Mexico. I think their ads may have made some difference, though that differecne may have been counteracted by the economic problems and Landrieu’s own campaign.Still, I think they may have been so over-the top that nobody gave them too much consideration.
does anyone know if this program has been started again?
we need to raise about $10m from Dem Senators in like the next week in order to win in NC, OR, MN, and GA!!!
Schumer
Bayh
Baucus
Pryor
Murray
Rockefeller
Bill Nelson
Harkin
Leahy
Kennedy
Reed
ALL have money squirreled away that they don’t need — with the NRSC, RNC, Freedom’s Watch, Chamber of Commerce, pro-life groups, etc hitting Franken, Hagan, and Merkley especially — we need to get to work ASAP
So now, we can simply play offense in the Senate! I’m deciding now who should get my last batch of $$$$. 🙂
Here’s one John Kennedy whom I wish happy trails… 😉
The bottom is definitely falling out under Republicans this election. They’re having a great time flailing in the quicksand of their own record and, out of sheer greed for power, overstaying in it. I’m kinda hopeful most of a generation of crap right wing politicians drowns in it this time and in and the next couple elections. They really left us with nothing worthy of respect, it’s really pitiful in a way what a waste they made of it all.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…
Lawrence O’Donnell seems to think he will. Great news if true.
Landrieu has run a really good campaign this year. She had the money, good TV, and the right message with which to define John “Confused” Kennedy.