Wed Oct 24, 2012, 10:12 PM
Nye Bevan (10,894 posts)
HA! Linda McMahon is behind by 6% in CT Senate race (Quinnipiac) after spending $28 millionLast edited Wed Oct 24, 2012, 10:46 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
of her own money, versus $8.7 million spent by Chris Murphy (the Democrat) that mostly came from campaign donations.
And she spent $50 million in her unsuccessful 2010 Senate bid. So in total, between the two races, she has spent $78 million and counting. http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-congress/2012/10/quinnipiac-murphy-up-on-mcmahon-147051.html http://southington.patch.com/articles/linda-mcmahon-has-spent-78-million-so-far-on-senate-races-d8bb4f79
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| Author | Time | Post | |
| Nye Bevan | Oct 2012 | OP | |
| hrmjustin | Oct 2012 | #1 | |
| Nye Bevan | Oct 2012 | #4 | |
| Princess Turandot | Oct 2012 | #17 | |
| jonpaulprime | Oct 2012 | #2 | |
| Marie Marie | Oct 2012 | #3 | |
| Jennicut | Oct 2012 | #5 | |
| Nye Bevan | Oct 2012 | #7 | |
| Jennicut | Oct 2012 | #8 | |
| lovuian | Oct 2012 | #6 | |
| Dawson Leery | Oct 2012 | #9 | |
| romantico | Oct 2012 | #10 | |
| Cha | Oct 2012 | #13 | |
| Johonny | Oct 2012 | #11 | |
| Cha | Oct 2012 | #12 | |
| -LOKI -BAD FOR YA | Oct 2012 | #14 | |
| ncav53 | Oct 2012 | #15 | |
| Borgnine | Oct 2012 | #16 | |
| CTyankee | Oct 2012 | #20 | |
| calico1 | Oct 2012 | #18 | |
| LiberalFighter | Oct 2012 | #19 |
Response to Nye Bevan (Original post)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 10:16 PM
hrmjustin (9,303 posts)
1. She is such a nasty woman. As a fellow Mets fan I am from NYC and see her ugly ads...
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.... every other minute of tv I watch. They don't like her, and Obama will win in a landslide so he will carry Murphy.
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Response to hrmjustin (Reply #1)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 10:21 PM
Nye Bevan (10,894 posts)
4. Having had to sit through a few WWE "matches" a few years ago, with my then 10 year old son,
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I have nothing but disdain for the entire WWE. I was so happy when my son outgrew that crap.
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Response to hrmjustin (Reply #1)
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 08:09 AM
Princess Turandot (2,169 posts)
17. I've seen several ads from her on TBS..
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during the playoffs and one just tonight on TNT. (I'm in Manhattan.)
Her ads don't even make much sense, for all the $$$ she's throwing into it! I'll be very glad when she loses. |
Response to Nye Bevan (Original post)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 10:20 PM
jonpaulprime (101 posts)
2. I find it inspirational every time she FAILS to buy an election
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it proves that having more money does NOT always guarantee a victory.
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Response to Nye Bevan (Original post)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 10:21 PM
Marie Marie (2,049 posts)
3. I am having so much fun watching these people throw away millions trying to buy elections.
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Throwing all this money out there at least gets it into our economy instead of it being hoarded, as the wealthy tend to do. And they are losing badly to boot. Keep it up m/billionaires - if for nothing else than my amusement.
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Response to Nye Bevan (Original post)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 10:23 PM
Jennicut (25,350 posts)
5. She really wants to buy this seat. Which pisses many of us off in Connecticut.
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She has gone overboard with her ads. It is overkill. And she has come off as very smarmy and entitled. She really thought if threw enough ads on tv and in the mail that she could take this race. I think it backfired on her. Oversaturating the airwaves becomes annoying really fast.
And her comments on Social Security and rape have hurt her. If she wanted to be a moderate candidate she needed to talk the talk and was caught not doing that. CT elects moderate Repubs, not conservative ones. |
Response to Jennicut (Reply #5)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 10:25 PM
Nye Bevan (10,894 posts)
7. I watch very little network TV, but I am so sick of her nasty, negative flyers
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accumulating in my mailbox.
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Response to Nye Bevan (Reply #7)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 10:31 PM
Jennicut (25,350 posts)
8. I literally want to burn them.
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And she sends them to me and I am a registered Dem. She just has endless money to do this.
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Response to Nye Bevan (Original post)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 10:25 PM
lovuian (18,384 posts)
6. Koch brothers and others will find Money can't buy
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everything....I'm tickled at the spending of millions
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Response to Nye Bevan (Original post)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 10:41 PM
Dawson Leery (8,386 posts)
9. She has spent 80 million between her two runs.
Response to Nye Bevan (Original post)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 10:47 PM
romantico (4,939 posts)
10. For the past
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For the past 2 months, I have been getting 3 or 4 huge full color ads of hers in the mail couple times a week. She has called my house non stop, even when I asked the guy who called last time to please take me off their list. Last night at 9:00Pm I got a robo call from her.
I've been hearing that if she does not win in November she is gonna try and run for Governor next. She is bored and has plenty of money. She will keep running for office until she eventually wins. She is not going anywhere anytime soon I'm afraid. Can't stand her. WIsh they could find some dirt on her that would kill any chance she has at running for office again. Don't even get me started on that jerk of a husband of hers. |
Response to romantico (Reply #10)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 11:03 PM
Cha (124,684 posts)
13. "She will keep running for office until she eventually wins". Or NOT..
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I'm thinking Positive for Connecticut!
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Response to Nye Bevan (Original post)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 10:51 PM
Johonny (11,080 posts)
11. She's becoming the Iron Mike Sharpe of politics
Response to Nye Bevan (Original post)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 11:01 PM
Cha (124,684 posts)
12. Jsu Christo... That's a lot of $$$$$$$
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down the drain!
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Response to Nye Bevan (Original post)
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 03:12 AM
-LOKI -BAD FOR YA (305 posts)
14. robme will find out the same thing ,money can not buy everything n\t
Response to Nye Bevan (Original post)
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 03:26 AM
ncav53 (168 posts)
15. I think she believes she's the "Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase
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Last edited Thu Oct 25, 2012, 03:27 AM USA/ET - Edit history (1) Trying to buy the championship and all.
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Response to Nye Bevan (Original post)
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 03:33 AM
Borgnine (3,170 posts)
16. It sounds like she's got...
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...NO CHANCE. NO CHANCE IN HELL.
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Response to Borgnine (Reply #16)
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 09:01 AM
CTyankee (35,116 posts)
20. I hope she gives up. No one wants to look at her again...
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even my repub neighbor who had her sign up on his lawn in her run against Dick blumenthal in 2010 hasn't put another one up this election.
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Response to Nye Bevan (Original post)
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 08:41 AM
calico1 (8,389 posts)
18. She is doing what she did last time around.
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Carpet bombing with ads. I think like last time, she is just annoying the shit out of people. If a person doesn't like you, saturating them with more ads isn't going to change that.
Chris Murphy did very well in the debates. She was just throwing out talking points. Some footage of her at a Tea Party meeting advocating twilighting Social Security hurt her. She has also expressed being against employers being required to cover birth control and was for the Blunt amendment. All she does with her ads is deny everything and say that Chris Murphy is the one lying, even though in his ads you always see references from newspapers, etc. She's got nothing. She comes off as snarky, bitchy and entitled. I am so looking forward to the election so I don't have to listen to her grating, annoying voice. |
Response to Nye Bevan (Original post)
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 08:58 AM
LiberalFighter (31,085 posts)
19. All the more reason the rich should be taxed more so they can't accumulate megabucks
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That way those below the rich will keep more of their money.
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