'We've never seen anything like this': GOP overwhelmed by Democratic cash

[DonViejo]

The gush of spending in House races has triggered recriminations on the right as the party tries to salvage its majority.

By ALEX ISENSTADT 10/12/2018 07:43 PM EDT

A deluge of Democratic spending in the final days of the battle for the House has triggered recriminations among Republicans and forced the party to lean on its biggest patron to salvage their majority.

Since the end of July, Republican candidates in the 70 most contested races have reserved $60 million in TV ads, compared to $109 million for Democratic hopefuls, according to figures compiled by media trackers and reviewed by POLITICO. The disparity is almost certain to grow, as former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg makes good on plans to spend nearly $80 million to help Democrats flip the House.

“From Democrat candidates to outside groups, we’ve never seen anything like this before,” said Brian Walsh, president of the pro-Trump America First Action super PAC. “They are dumping in cash by the truckload.”

Desperate for help, Republicans are turning to their go-to benefactor: Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson. The 85-year-old ally of President Donald Trump has made another contribution in the range of $20 million to the House GOP-aligned Congressional Leadership Fund super PAC, according to two Republican officials familiar with the donation. Party leaders are hopeful he'll fork over even more.

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[Achilleaze]

1. republicans have a THING for casino hustlers & draft dodgers

showing you what republican "family values" are really all about.

[vlyons]

2. boo hoo hoo

Hey Rethugs! The jig is up. People are waking up to your imbecilic evil.

[greymattermom]

3. They were stupid to think that decisions like Citizen United would always go in their favor.

If any money is allowed, you never know who will find some. If cheating is allowed, you can't prevent the other side from cheating too. I hope you hear that, Brian Kemp.

[Lucky Luciano]

4. Funny thing though - much of that money is not citizens united!

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A lot of very small contributions - like Beto is all small - no super PAC. That said Bloomberg certainly helped - at least he is not being anonymous!

[True Blue American]

6. How about this?

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/10/10/1803398/-A-few-white-evangelical-women-in-Texas-are-crossing-a-major-line-supporting-a-Democrat

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

5. I do believe...

They have other tricks up their sleeves and are keeping their sleeves down for now.

GOTV, like never before, we must overwhelm them at the polls.

[CurtEastPoint]

7. "Democrat candidates" FUCK YOU, Walsh.

Democratic.

[a kennedy]

11. this absolutely drives me insane........

when they all use that term "Democrat".

[MoonRiver]

13. We need to be calling each one of them a "Republic" in response.

[llmart]

16. Better yet,

keep calling them Nazi Republicans. I like that better.

[CurtEastPoint]

17. I call them Repubs, with a long 'u' as in 'pube.'

[BadgerMom]

18. Our spokespeople should start to use "Repub."

When possible, they should substitute subtly “Rethug.”

[machoneman]

19. Republiscums! n/m

[Greybnk48]

20. The RepubliCONS, as a group, are Uneducated or undereducated.

I'm sure they don't know that "democrat" as they use it, is grammatically incorrect.

Probably learned from one of them there Texas textbooks, ain't it?

[rlegro]

22. Walsh is a Walpublican candidate, or, better yet...

... by his own twisted grammar, a Walpublic candidate.

[Initech]

23. So I see that Republican bumper sticker that says:

"Annoy a liberal - work hard and be happy!"

I counter that with:

"Annoy a conservative - correct them when they refer to it as the Democrat party."

[raging moderate]

8. I will live on crackers to defeat these evil neo-Nazis.

I will give as much money as I possibly can. Also, I will continue walking door to door, etc.

[vi5]

9. Cash is good, but it doesn't equal voters or votes....

..which is why I hope a lot of that cash is used for Get Out The Vote efforts and canvassing and things like that and not high paid consultants with deep records of failure and loss, or shitty ads with even shittier buy strategies for said ads.

[samplegirl]

10. Attack ads

work!!! Look what they did to Hillary!

[a kennedy]

12. and in Wisconsin, Wanker is running some horrible ads agains Evers......

just nasty. Attack ads DO WORK.

[Thekaspervote]

14. Except Last poll I saw just a few days ago show Evers with a solid lead

[vi5]

21. I agree....

...the problem is that unlike Republicans we don't use attack ads enough or when we do they are not nasty enough. I have seen some good ones but I've seen a lot of way too mild, soft focus ineffective ones. The one against Ted Cruz, laughing at his "tough as texas" line is a good one. This one for Dean Phillips is a great one.

https://observer.com/2018/09/bigfoot-big-pharma-dean-phillips-erik-paulsen-political-ad/

But too often it's the same old, deep voice narrator going "Senator so and so did this......(ominous music plays while unflattering photo fades on to the screen)....he also took money from (insert bad group name here)......why is he ignoring what his constituents want? who does he really answer to?......(more ominous music).....Senator so and so....bad for (insert state here).....bad for America."

After a while that just blends into the background and is just white noise. As with everything we do, we need more down and dirty and creative and less business as usual BS.

And don't even get me started on Hillary's ad buys. The weekend before the election I spent part of it at my parents house out in PA and part in my house in NJ and I saw easily 5 times more pro-Hillary or Anti-Trump ads running in the safe blue (and expensive), NY/NJ market than I did in
(less expensive) swing state PA. That's the other piece of this is not just the quality of the ads but the too often inexplicable strategy to some of the buys.

These things have to be good AND smart and far too often our strategies are neither.

[beachbum bob]

15. GOP aligned SuperPacs and billionaires like Koch bros and others have more than

made up...but remember ACT BLUE has had over a BILLION $$$ come thru them for this election