Dems’ Success Drawing Members’ Money A Growing GOP Sore Spot

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Dems’ Success Drawing Members’ Money A Growing GOP Sore Spot
By Greg Giroux, CQ Staff


The Democrats are strongly favored to make gains in this year’s Senate elections that will bolster the fragile majority the party won in the 2006 elections. And one big reason is that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) has greatly outraised its counterpart, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC).

It has done so in part by attracting more large contributions from the campaign committees of incumbent senators, who are permitted to give unlimited funds. The GOP’s problems maximizing this important source of campaign funds was dramatized Friday with an extraordinary announcement by Nevada Sen. John Ensign , the NRSC chairman, who publicly decried his colleagues for insufficient generosity.

Ensign stated that his public plea on July 30 for contributions from Republican senators went “largely unanswered” — and that, as a result, he was reducing the committee’s budget for independent expenditures in this fall’s Senate campaigns.

These expenditures are mostly for ads aimed at bolstering Republican Senate candidates and attacking their Democratic opponents, though by law they must be made without coordinating with the candidates’ own campaigns. And they will comprise most of the spending by both parties’ Senate campaign committees for the remainder of the general election campaigns.

The problems facing the NRCC were illustrated by the committees’ finance reports for July, filed by last week’s deadline, which showed the Democrats with the advantage they have maintained throughout the current election cycle. The DSCC raised $5.3 million and the NRSC raised $3.7 million last month. The Democratic committee began August with $43 million in the bank, compared to $25.4 million for the NRSC.

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[dkf]

1. HAR HAR HAR. I love it.

[Vincardog]

2. So will the DSCC start to support Progressive Populist candidates now?

[NNN0LHI]

5. First Joementum needs to be marginalized

[Vincardog]

7. That is how we marginalize holly joe and all the Dinos

[grannie4peace]

3. i wonder how much they got yesterday?

i pray tons;):):)

[billyoc]

4. "Will gay-bash for food" --RNC

[Frances]

6. On the other hand, I understand that corporations

are pouring money into the Senate races. They are planning to run negative ads against Dems, since Dems are sympathetic to unions and the corporations want to keep the "right to work" laws on the books that make it hard for people to join unions.

[KharmaTrain]

8. Kudos To My Senior Senator

Dick Durbin is up for re-election and I still don't know what sacraficial lamb the GOOP found to go up against it. It won't matter...i predict he'll win with 60% or more of the vote...and not really have to spend much.

That hasn't stopped him from helping others. I've gotten emails from various campaigns (Rick Noriega, Tom Allen and Jeff Merkley) as well as special appeals he's held for both the DSCC and other candidates.

As much as I am pissed as Shummer for being bullshitted by Muck-Assey, he's done a hell of a job in recruiting candidates and supporting them. The Democratic party is the most competitive it's been since the 60's...and it feels good to think that many of these candidates will win.