Our good friend Ken Spain, the resident mouthpiece over at the NRCC, makes a funny:
While the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has $44 million ready to use on races across the country, the National Republican Congressional Committee has just $7 million.
Spain said the money didn’t change how voters would respond to the candidates.
“Unless they plan on spending all $44 million on this seat, we believe there is an opportunity here,” he said. “This is a moderate district that wants moderate representation that will embody change, and so far Michael Arcuri has offered none of the above.”
Yes, the DCCC needs to spend all $44 million on shoring up Arcuri while the NRCC continues to hemorrhage crimson red seats in the Deep South.
Sounds like my kinda math!
SSP currently rates this race as Likely Democratic.
“moderate representation that embodies change”
Something tells me Arcuri is doing this just fine. Boehlert was a maybe on holding on to some kind of moderate, agent of change credibility, but he’s gone now. The GOP is out of change agents.
NY-24 is a red herring. Try and distract us from NY-13, 25, 26, and 29.
Or something may be about to occur in 3 and 23 and give us the full delegation. 🙂
I don’t envy him. His job, essentially, is to put make-up and lipstick on the biggest, ugliest pig in the political world right now.
Plus, he is getting repeatedly low-bridged by his own people. He is out there selling the idea that the GOP is actively targeting a boatload of Dem incumbents, while Tom Davis is getting quoted in the paper saying the party will lose 20-25 seats.
He is the public affairs director on the Titanic at this point, I think a little bit of self-delusion is to be expected…
🙂
Are these guys on crack? I know they have to put on a good face lest they scare away any potential donations, but at some point they look like fools.
That sounds like a statement that emerged from focus group and consultant hell. Lots of buzzwords, no meaning.
since you asked about this before, this Ken Spain is not the same one who played in the NBA, as he died in 1990. Unless the NRCC’s Spain is a zombie. Which is always a remote possibility.