Via commentor BGinChI, here’s TPM reporting on the race to throw Joe Walsh out:
… The Chicago Sun-Times reported Tuesday night that Now or Never, a super PAC that has already spent nearly $2 million on the race, was going to put in another $2.5 million for negative ads against the Democrat. According to its anonymous source, the goal would be “bury Duckworth.”…
One question is whether it would even be possible to buy up that much TV time in the final three weeks of the election.
“I know that the window to buy that kind of media is quickly closing,” Harber said. “But the great thing about a metro area like Chicago, is you’ve got a bunch of broadcast stations and a bunch of cable stations. There is a variety of ways we could spend that money. If we were a couple days out from the election, that would become an impossibility.”…
Obviously re-electing President Obama is job one, but there’s much to be said for giving him a Congress that won’t reflexively oppose his every decision. Sam Wang of the Princeton Electoral Consortium has an ActBlue page where he’s identified “high-leverage target races” — seven in the House, and four in the Senate, as well as the DCCC. (Yes, I understand that not everyone trusts the judgement of the DCCC.) Democracy for America has their “Dean’s Dozen” (same caveat). Not much overlap.
Here at Balloon Juice, we’ve got an ActBlue page for President Obama, and another for Elizabeth Warren. Where else should us Juicers be allocating our donations?
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