DCCC, NRCC Spend $8 Million in 40 House Races

The spending was a bit lopsided, though.

Here are the latest Independent Expenditures filed tonight by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee. In total, it was a $7.9 million day for the Republican and Democratic groups, and the biggest single-day money dump by the DCCC so far this cycle.







































































































































































































































































































District Incumbent Group Expenditure
AK-AL Young DCCC $777,254
AL-02 Open DCCC $102,967
AL-02 Open NRCC $70,839
AL-05 Open DCCC $79,598
AZ-03 Shadegg DCCC $286,798
AZ-05 Mitchell DCCC $232,933
AZ-08 Giffords DCCC $96,708
CT-04 Shays DCCC $142,366
FL-16 Mahoney DCCC $183,445
FL-24 Feeney DCCC $229,313
IL-10 Kirk DCCC $59,508
IL-11 Open DCCC $40,953
IN-09 Hill DCCC $173,149
KY-02 Open DCCC $142,884
LA-06 Cazayoux DCCC $146,186
MD-01 Open DCCC $210,174
MI-07 Walberg DCCC $139,252
MI-07 Walberg NRCC $202,070
MI-09 Knollenberg DCCC $234,365
MN-03 Open DCCC $278,785
MO-06 Graves DCCC $158,137
MO-09 Open DCCC $106,008
MS-01 Childers DCCC $2,300
NC-08 Hayes DCCC $268,785
NH-01 Shea-Porter DCCC $341,807
NJ-03 Open DCCC $93,876
NJ-07 Open DCCC $116,541
NM-01 Open DCCC $174,779
NM-02 Open DCCC $204,415
NV-03 Porter DCCC $215,997
NY-26 Open DCCC $239,781
OH-01 Chabot DCCC $242,784
OH-01 Chabot NRCC $333,652
OH-15 Open DCCC $206,084
OH-15 Open NRCC $11,426
OH-16 Open DCCC $198,729
PA-03 English DCCC $135,751
PA-03 English NRCC $97,175
PA-10 Carney DCCC $168,338
PA-11 Kanjorski DCCC $157,192
TX-23 Rodriguez DCCC $98,874
VA-02 Drake DCCC $173,724
VA-11 Open DCCC $103,831
WA-08 Reichert DCCC $19,053
WI-08 Kagen DCCC $104,760
WI-08 Kagen NRCC $98,900
Total Blue $7,088,184
Total Red     $814,061

For more details on these and other expenditures, please consult our Independent Expenditure Tracker.

Of particular note is the titanic DCCC expenditure in Alaska against Don Young. Alaska is a cheap media market, so this must represent several weeks worth of ad time — it could possibly be a saturation buy for the entire month.

All told, the DCCC spent money in 41 districts tonight, while the NRCC is going for concentrated bursts in just a limited number. It seems that they’re going for a strategy of holding a line around a few select races rather than try to keep up with the DCCC across the board — which is no surprise, given their extraordinarily weak cash-on-hand ($14.4 million as of September 1st).

26 thoughts on “DCCC, NRCC Spend $8 Million in 40 House Races”

  1. We need to be making Use It Or Lose It calls to the deadbeats.

    Same goes for the Senate–I heard Harkin gave $250K to DSCC in late September, but I do not have confirmation of that yet. We need our safe incumbents to give the DCCC and DSCC the resources to win these winnable seats.

  2. Has the DCCC given up on WA-08 then? It seems their expenditures in the district are very low for what was such a close race in 2006.

  5. There appears to be some vulnerable incumbents which the DCCC are not attacking.  In media markets that overlap districts the DCCC might be worthwhile running ads which attack two incumbents together while linking them both to Bush and his failed policies.  Such districts include:

    FL – Keller and Feeney in the Orlando market

    FL – Both Diaz-Balart’s in Miami

    NE/IA – Lee Terry and Steve King in Omaha

    NJ/PA – Dent and Garrett in Allentown

    OH – Chabot and Schmidt in Cincinnati

    VA/WV – Capito and Wolf in Martinsburg

    The DCCC may also want to make buys in less expensive markets:

    ID – Sali in Boise

    IN – Souder in Fort Wayne

    IA – Latham in Mason City

    MN – Bachmann in Saint Cloud

    NV – Heller in Elko

    NC – McHenry in Hickory

    VA – Goode in Danville

    WY – Trauner in Casper and Laramie

    Just to force the NRCC to worry about 20 additional seats is well worth it.

  6. CO-04

    Toss Up <—– Leans Republican

    FL-25

    Lean Republican <—– Republican Favored

    IN-03

    Republican Favored <—– Safe Republican

    —

    Some reason cq isn’t working anymore.  

    I remember PA-03 and PA-11 moved to No Clear Favorites.. But I didn’t catch that last one.  

  7. a strategy of holding a line around a few select races rather than try to keep up with the DCCC across the board

    Yep, they’re bailing out against Kilroy and Boccieri and are trying to save Chabot and Mean Jean. Given the results from last nights insta-polls, I think the DCCC should go on the offensive against BOTH of them. The Democratic “brand” has gone wayyy up over the last few days. Same media market, why not?

    The D Trip tends to have  a lot of inertia. The polls show that Boccieri has a comfortable lead and Kilroy is ahead. So put some resources into OH-01 and OH-02.  

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