A question

when it says, for example, that the DCCC spent $72005.56 in support of Martin Heinrich and $72005.56 in opposition to Darren White, that means they spent $144,011.12 total?

New Mexico politics from the local perspective.

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by: fbihop @ Wed Sep 17, 2008 at 03:20:45 AM UTC

Yeah

Usually it's an ad (or series of ads) that attack a Republican but also feature at least a few seconds of promoting a Democrat, so they split the expenditure report in two parts.

So yeah, they spent $144K total.

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by: James L. @ Wed Sep 17, 2008 at 03:26:51 AM UTC

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happysad list:

Happy to see a half-million against Jeb Bradley.  Hopefully that will end this race.  Will be very unhappy to see another half million go here in a month.

Happy to see NC-08 get some significant money.

Happy to see PA-03 on the board at all.  That's encouraging.

Unhappy to see AZ-05 on the list.  At first thought it was Shadegg/Lord, which would have made me very pleased (I can't figure out yet if that contest is for real, was hoping to see the D-trip tell me it was), but it's in defense of Mitchell.  I wasn't expecting him to need it, so that's a bummer.

And 40k in IL-10 and IL-11?  Is that radio or cable or what?

These are some pretty small buys in the aggregate, it seems to me (with the obvious exception of NH-01).  If I'm wrong about that someone correct me please.

28, gay guy, Democrat, CA-08

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by: texas dem @ Wed Sep 17, 2008 at 03:27:49 AM UTC

IL-10 and IL-11

Pretty sure that's cable.

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by: James L. @ Wed Sep 17, 2008 at 03:29:34 AM UTC

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NH-1

See, I dont get why they are bothering with 500k.  Isnt it a really weak challenger?  Maybe internals show the race somewhat kind of close and they just want to seal the deal now and not have to bother doing anything later.

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by: Andrew @ Wed Sep 17, 2008 at 04:28:17 AM UTC

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You're thinking of NH-02

It's Paul Hodes who doesn't need a dime to dispatch with the halfwit challenging him.
NH-01 is, of course, Rep. Shea-Porter against former Rep. Jeb Bradley.

22, Democrat, AZ-01
Peace. Love. Gabby.

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by: Nico @ Wed Sep 17, 2008 at 14:00:37 PM UTC

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ah

thanks, :)

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by: Andrew @ Wed Sep 17, 2008 at 15:12:39 PM UTC

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