| The national GOP, particularly the NRCC, are hoping to make the March 31st special election in the 20th a statement race. They are pouring in big money from DC.
GOP spends big for 20th District seat
Republicans are pouring money into the March 31 special election to fill New York's 20th Congressional District seat in an effort to reverse the momentum Democrats gained in last year's presidential and congressional elections.
More than half the independent expenditures made so far have been by the National Republican Congressional Committee, which has spent $343,902 to run two television ads attacking Democratic candidate Scott Murphy.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has spent less than half of that - $156,764 - on two TV ads attacking Republican candidate Jim Tedisco.
"The numbers show that the Republicans have a lot more at stake here than do the Democrats," said Stuart Rothenberg, editor of the nonpartisan Rothenberg Political Report. "The fact of the matter is that this is seen as a Republican-leaning seat that the Democrats held for a couple of cycles and that Obama won."
So much for that whole "I'm taking over my campaign from the DC types who are driving it off a cliff" thing from last week, huh?
There just isn't any way they are going to allow Tedisco to any such thing. The National GOP just has far too much riding on this race, stuff that has next to nothing to do with Jim Tedisco or upstate or New York. They are hoping to arrest their steep slide towards irrelevance right here in New York. I say we send them packing. |
