Studious readers of the Swing State Project know that we keep daily tabs on House race independent expenditures in our IE tracker. But now that election season truly is in full swing, we’ll also be rounding up the money spent in the last seven days by the party committees and independent groups each Sunday night on the front page.
| District | Incumbent | Group | Last Week | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA-11 | McNerney | DCCC | $24,280.69 | $51,024.07 |
| IL-11 | Open | DCCC | $74,644.32 | $325,713.20 |
| NJ-03 | Open | DCCC | $43,385.90 | $65,034.31 |
| NJ-07 | Open | DCCC | $13,110.32 | $93,106.34 |
| NM-01 | Open | DCCC | $42,975.97 | $87,156.76 |
| OH-15 | Open | DCCC | $54,973.42 | $180,632.68 |
| OH-16 | Open | DCCC | $59,398.96 | $161,292.82 |
| PA-11 | Kanjorski | NARPAC | $192,532.00 | $192,532.00 |
| TX-22 | Lampson | DCCC | $78,622.28 | $285,518.76 |
| VA-11 | Open | DCCC | $23,119.64 | $52,268.73 |
NARPAC is the National Association of Realtors’ political arm. More often than not, they support Republicans, but on occasion they spend cash to defend a Democratic incumbent (such as Melissa Bean in 2006). Looks like Paul Kanjorski is getting the Bean treatment this year.
While the NRCC can’t afford to engage in any real spending just yet, the DCCC is using their head start to ramp up the negatives of Republican candidates in key open seat races — a “kill ’em in the crib” approach, if you will.
For more specific details, please consult SSP’s Independent Expenditure tracker.
My first thought was, what the hell is NARPAC, then I thought to myself: read first, THEN ask, so you don’t look stupid like you always do. You’re just a bundle of information.
These numbers say no much about what the d-trip is seeing and thinking.
–Clearly, they ain’t worried about VA-11. This is right. Connelly is going to win very big.
–The numbers must show NJ-07 is a bit tougher than NJ-03. Interesting. This makes sense as Leonard Lance is a stronger candidate than Chris Myers. But I keep telling people: despite John Adler’s strengths, that seat will not be a gimme. The geography of the district makes it tricky for Dems.
–The numbers for Kanjorski must be bad.
–OH-15/16 and IL-11 are not the lay-ups many (myself included) thought they’d be.
There are a lot of other places I’d like to see them playing, and I hope they will very soon.
it comes to reserving ad time, and most of their spare money will go into mailers and phonebanking, etc. With the exception of last minute decisions to binge on loans and react to poll numbers.
Hence, why I’d like a cumulative chart for reserved ad time to date.
Even when things look good on paper. And these numbers are still pretty much drops in the ocean.