Wow, serious money

Could make a serious impact on this race.  I really think we're going to finally take out Musgrave this time around.  We have an excellent candidate and Colorado should run strong even in the 4th district.

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by: ChadInFL @ Tue Jun 24, 2008 at 02:16:57 AM UTC

Who exactly are Defenders of Wildlife?

Don't think I've heard of them.  Do they usually throw around this kind of money in elections?

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by: ChadInFL @ Tue Jun 24, 2008 at 02:18:26 AM UTC

Check em out

Here. They targeted Richard Pombo last time around with a bunch of ads.

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by: James L. @ Tue Jun 24, 2008 at 02:20:59 AM UTC

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McNerney

Benefitted from $1 million in ads by a hodge podge of environmental groups against Richard Pombo.  Musgrave is sitting on shakier ground so this alone could work.  Target one nutjob per cycle and pretty soon the environmentalists will get back the respect they used to have.

Spreading the money a la Emily's List does not give the same bang for the buck.  If IIRC only two of the successful Democratic challengers last cycle spent under $1 million (including ads from friendly groups): Carol Shea-Porter ans David Loebsack and Loebsack was in a pretty even money match up with Jim Leach.

Markey's on the red to blue lists so this one looks encouraging.

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by: David Kowalski @ Tue Jun 24, 2008 at 02:26:26 AM UTC

Nice Ads!

Especially like that one! The other is here.

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by: Progressive America @ Tue Jun 24, 2008 at 02:59:04 AM UTC

This is the year Musgrave is going to lose

In other news. Why the hell is the LCV playing it so safe?

Udall is going to win. Use your money somewhere that it's needed like Oaklahoma.  

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by: Populista @ Tue Jun 24, 2008 at 03:47:28 AM UTC

LCV

LCV just endorsed Andrew Rice today. Hopefully they will spend a lot for him.

http://lcv.org/newsroom/press-...

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by: Progressive America @ Tue Jun 24, 2008 at 04:06:15 AM UTC

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That's good

Let's hope they drop a cool million into the race.

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by: Populista @ Wed Jun 25, 2008 at 00:13:32 AM UTC

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maybe not a MILLION

but rest assured(i am a member of the LCV)we will be going after the odious inhofe(just TODAY new evidence has come out on climate change of which inhofe ignores as just a "hoax")

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by: jackdawkins @ Wed Jun 25, 2008 at 00:19:37 AM UTC

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Ya it would be foolish to write off Oklahoma

I've long believed that our chances in OK were better that many imagined.  I wish we could get more polls on the race.  Rice is a good candidate and Inhofe has never had approval ratings much if at all above 50%.

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by: ChadInFL @ Wed Jun 25, 2008 at 00:25:46 AM UTC

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Think of it this way

That money is freeing up the DSCC to put their cash to work elsewhere.

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by: James L. @ Tue Jun 24, 2008 at 04:44:39 AM UTC

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CO-04, I feel it this year

Something about Markey fits. Last cycle's candidate, Angie Paccione, I just never felt fit the district. She impressed me more as a classic big-city liberal rather than a Tester/Udall type of progressive. I have no idea if her positions matched the impression that was left but I just felt that way, and that impression does not sit well in a R+9 (or is it 7?) district.

Markey reminds me of Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin. A charisma such as hers should work well. I think we finally found the right candidate for the district.

CO-04 shall be ours.

26, Male, Democrat, TX-26

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by: trowaman @ Tue Jun 24, 2008 at 04:39:09 AM UTC

love it

One of the few non-political charities that I give to, taking out one, if not my least favorite Repbulican. Good times to be had by all!

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by: Venslor @ Tue Jun 24, 2008 at 05:06:58 AM UTC

"least favorite Republican"

There should SO be a thread about this, just to see who wins.

M. Musgrave?  B. Sali?  J. Schmidt?

party: Democratic, ideology: moderate, district: CT-01

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by: Glenn Magus Harvey @ Tue Jun 24, 2008 at 06:23:54 AM UTC

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G.W. Bush? By a landslide? (n/t)

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by: JimM @ Tue Jun 24, 2008 at 13:59:52 PM UTC

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Nah

Dubya has served his purpose.  He's single-handedly set the republican party in the minority for possibly a generation.  It takes hard work to take an 85% approval rating post 9/11 and get it all the way down to 20% while blowing all gains your party has made over the past dozen years.

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by: ChadInFL @ Wed Jun 25, 2008 at 00:29:06 AM UTC

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It's a three-part question

House Members, Senators -- Inhofe, Chambliss, McConnell?, and all others: W, Rove, Cheney, Scalia, DeLay, Dobson. On second thought, I'm not sure it's any fun at all to have to contemplate, compare, and contrast this bunch of sorry rascals to try to choose just one, and, even worse, three.

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by: WoodyNYC @ Tue Jun 24, 2008 at 14:06:39 PM UTC

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Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund

came out big for Tom Udall very early and promised to spend a significant amount of money -- along with a few other environmental groups.  They aired ads during the primary attacking both Heather Wilson and Steve Pearce (Udall had no primary opposition).

But I think they're going to go ahead and back away from the NM race and go to other races.

New Mexico politics from the local perspective.

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by: fbihop @ Tue Jun 24, 2008 at 17:19:08 PM UTC

that's just smart politics by them

sen ensign(nrsc)has abandoned pearce to his own fate; the money saved here can make a huge difference elsewhere(say, oklahoma? where the odious inhofe lurks........)

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by: jackdawkins @ Tue Jun 24, 2008 at 20:24:35 PM UTC

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Hopefully Ensign goes for offense

He should fund those great republican nominees Bob Kelleher in Montana and Christopher Reed in Iowa.  Those two races were supposed to be top-tier republican pickup opportunities, remember?  

Pryor in Arkansas was supposed to be another big target this cycle.  Oh wait, republicans couldn't find a single person to challenge him.  Something that even the Green Party accomplished.

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by: ChadInFL @ Wed Jun 25, 2008 at 00:34:00 AM UTC

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