Kochs backing out of blue-state Senate races

[n2doc]

Sorry Charlie (and David): It turns out there are some things money can’t buy, like Senate races in liberal states. And that means the Democrats just might keep control of the Senate.

The Koch brothers have learned this the hard way. After spending big in Oregon to boost their favored candidate, she continues to lag in the polls, so they’ve now dropped plans for additional spending. The Register-Guard of Eugene, Ore., reports:

Freedom Partners’ super PAC, the Virginia-based group affiliated with oil and gas magnates Charles and David Koch, confirmed Friday that it has canceled all the television ad time it had reserved in October to influence Oregon’s U.S. Senate race.

Freedom Partners’ nonprofit affiliate has strongly criticized incumbent Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley in TV ads throughout August, providing a big outside boost to the campaign of GOP challenger Monica Wehby.

Freedom Partners spokesman Bill Riggs declined to provide the exact size of the October airtime reservation it was canceling, but it was expected to total at least $1 million.

Riggs also declined to provide a specific reason for the pullback.

Well, here’s a theory on why Freedom Partners is giving up on the Oregon Senate seat: In the last poll, from Rasmussen Reports — which if anything leans Republican — Wehby was trailing Merkley by 13 points. That’s consistent with Merkley’s strong lead in previous polls. In early August, Freedom Partners committed $3.6 million to ads attacking Merkley, so that means it likely spent around $2 million or more in one month and was unable to move the needle.

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http://grist.org/politics/kochs-backing-out-of-blue-state-senate-races/

[central scrutinizer]

1. Oregon Republicans really outdid themselves this year

The three in the races I get to vote for are outright laughing stocks

Dennis Richardson “A woman relinquishes her unfettered right to control her own body when her actions cause the conception of a baby”

Art Robinson "send me your urine, please"

Monica Wehby "I was against Obamacare before it was cool to be against Obamacare"

[cascadiance]

2. Some more fuel on these bums...

Dennis Richardson after the Clackamas mall shooting here and Sandy Hook (and before the later school shooting here in Oregon last year).

"If I had been a teacher or the principal at the Sandy Hook Elementary School and if the school district did not preclude me from having access to a firearm, either by concealed carry or locked in my desk, most of the murdered children would still be alive, and the gunman would still be dead, and not by suicide."

And the nutball Art Robinson was elected the new state of Oregon Republican party chair too...

[Gothmog]

3. what there are limits to the amount of money that the Koch brothers will spend

[yortsed snacilbuper]

4. The law of diminishing returns is kicking in!