MI-09: NRCC Retreats

From The Hill:

The National Republican Congressional Committe (NRCC) has canceled nearly $320,000 in planned ad buys in favor of Rep. Joe Knollenberg’s (R) reelection efforts in Michigan’s 9th congressional district.

According to numbers obtained by The Hill, the NRCC has canceled its buys in the next two weeks, while preserving an expenditure in the last week of the campaign.

The NRCC canceled one buy from October 14-20 for $150,000, and another October 21-27 for almost $170,000. The preserved expenditure, to run from October 28-November 4, amounts to almost $314,000-just slightly less than the sum the NRCC had planned to spend in the race in the preceding weeks.

By my count, that makes eight ten confirmed districts (including OH-16 and NM-01) where the NRCC has scaled back their ad time (although, in FL-16’s case, it doesn’t look like they’ll need to spend much money to topple Mahoney there).

They must be bracing themselves for something big over at the NRCC’s headquarters.

14 thoughts on “MI-09: NRCC Retreats”

  1. I lived in Michigan in 1992 when Knollenberg was elected to replace Republican Bill Broomfield. There was no doubt, once nominated (accidentally), that he would win the election.

    By the way, I miss Broomfield. He was a good guy and a good congressman.

  2. I was wondering why Rothenberg moved that race to tilts dem.  I think part of the reason may be Knollenberg’s age.  He was probably not going to run again in 2010 anyway and it would have been hard for republicans to hold that seat in an open race.  

    I still find it hard to believe we have a better shot at MI-09 than MI-07.  But I still think we take both.

  3. On the one hand, it is slightly more conservative than MI-09 (R+2 to R+0), and they’ve already dropped over $300 K here.  But on the other hand, with McCain pulling out, Walberg is also likely doomed as Obama is going to carry the state by ten percent.  

    If you were Tom Cole, would you continue spending in the Seventh since you’ve already dropped so much to save Walberg, or do you cut bait and move on?  I would forget MI-07, but I am not Tom Cole.  

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