Very good analysis indeed. Imagine what Rossi could have done with some of that eight million.
“In other words, the NRSC’s idiocy...”
It wasn’t idiocy ... it was the ruling class in action. The Grand Old Potty needs to be reminded they work for us.
Delaware is a tiny state. 27,000 votes is a huge margin in Delaware.
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When NRSC calls asking for donations, tell them you want your name removed from their phone and mail list.
If this was the result of a misinformation campaign by the RATS, I give them kudos.
John Kasich (very possible future president), Toomey, and many others who won across the states should thank Fiorina for taking on Boxer until the last days of the campaign!
Barbara Boxer was a tempting target due to her high negative ratings. Conservatives (myself included) didn’t think that Californians who disliked Boxer would vote for her, but some of them clearly did.
Christine O’Donnell was not ready for prime time. She was a strong conservative running in an urban liberal state where Obama remains popular. In fact, she was so inept, she could be described as Katherine Harris on steroids. I don’t like Mike Castle’s record, but he would have waltzed into the Senate. I predicted disaster in Delaware if O’Donnell was the nominee and I take no joy in being right.
As for Alaksa, the NRSC’s decision made sense in a way. Perhaps they hoped that liberals would react against the negative ads and swing from Murkowski to McAdams, handing Miller the election.
It’s quite possible that some of the money spent for Carly Fiorina would have been a boon to Ken Buck and Dino Rossi. In retrospect, the NRSC was too hopeful about the prospects in California, but I can’t condemm them for that because I was too.
As Rush so rightly pointed out, Graham & Lott, along with Cornyn, told us we needed to support RINOS: Fiorina, Crist, Castle, Bennet (Utah), Lowden (Nevada). Proving these guys know zilch. And I have had it with Rove. He’s nothing but a Progressive Republican. His 15 Minutes is long since over. He needs to get the hell off the stage.
1 - A pathetic and disgusting Harry Reid will still be the face of the democrats in Congress.
2 – If the pubbies took the Senate, Obama – fully supported by his mediawhores - would run against a do-nothing-Congress.
3 – Pubbies might have defacto control. Manchin can’t support Obama, otherwise he’s toast in 2 years. there’s a dozen demholes in red or purple states up for re-election in ’12. They won’t be marching in lockstep with dear leader anymore. I’ll bet now that the Repubs pick up another 6 seats in 2012.
4 – the most important plus is this: Having 51 R seats would put too much power in the hands of RINO fools like Graham, McCain, Snowe, Collins, etc…Obama could easily pick-off any two of these losers on any given issue.
Rove continues to gloat over being right about O’Donnell losing. Instead of helping her he did what he could to sabotage her and then taking credit for saying she would lose.
I’m pretty much as pissed at the Republican party as I am with the Democrats. The party as a whole sucks. I don’t even tell people that I am a Republican anymore, I say I’m a conservative. Rove, Lott, Graham are a disgrace and even Steele and other high up leaders who are not quite as bad are still needed to be removed from their positions. From now on, anyone who even uses the term “compromise” is out as far as I’m concerned. We don’t need the President to “work with us” we need to remove him from office.
That is the truth.
...and I’m saving this on my bookmarks and every time I see Palin cost us the Senate I’m putting this up....and the O’Donnell seat would not have cost us anyway with only 6 seats won.
That’s because in reality it’s global elites versus the people. The elites don’t support the people, regardless of party.
” I know one thing: that $3 million spent in the final weeks on those five campaigns could have swung four or five seats to the GOP.”
American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS spent 38 million running ads all over the country helping get Republicans elected nationwide.
No other group raised as much.
They coordinated with candidates and conservative groups and shared resources and strategy in a way that has never been done before by Republicans.
They plan on running ads during the lame duck session of Congress against the Democrats.
The two organizations are founded by Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie .
“One of this election cycle’s major third party groups is announcing it will spend more than four million dollars in the next week
in its largest media buy of the season spread across eight of the key Senate battlegrounds.
In an effort to help elect Republicans in these races,
American Crossroads will spend almost $800,000
in Colorado and $350,000 in Nevada while its affiliate Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies (GPS) is buying time in Illinois,
Washington state, Missouri,
Kentucky and Pennsylvania. “
the NRSC's final ads actually ended up helping Lisa Murkowski in her write-in campaign against GOP nominee Joe Miller. Instead of attacking Murkowski -- the candidate who most threatened the party's nominee -- the NRSC instead took aim at Democrat Scott McAdams, who had no chance of winning. Any support they drove from McAdams was far more likely to go to Murkowski than to Miller -- meaning the NRSC effort probably did more harm than good for Miller's campaign.This was not idiocy. It was intentional.
In other words, the NRSC's idiocy
How about realizing some of the candidates were not going to get elected no matter what.
If the respective campaign managers couldn't figure out how to run a winning campaign, maybe the issue is the manager himself. Sometimes the opposition just has better political talent.
They knew what they were doing-hedging their bets so that if 'Murk' won she wouldn't be mad at them.