California Conservative

I don’t know what we’d do without them but I’d love finding out what it’d be like. Here’s what the NY Times’ Adam Nagourney wrote:

Senior Republican leaders have concluded that Sen. Mike DeWine of Ohio, a pivotal state in this year’s fierce midterm election battles, is likely to be heading for defeat and are moving to reduce financial support for his race and divert party money to other embattled Republican senators, party officials said.
The decision to effectively write off Mr. DeWine’s seat, after a series of internal Republican polls showed him falling behind his Democratic challenger, is part of a fluid series of choices by top leaders in both parties as they set the strategic framework of the campaign’s final three weeks, signaling, by where they are spending television money and other resources, the Senate and House races where they believe they have the best chances of success.

Mr. Nagourney’s reporting, and the Times’ editor, are wrong. Here’s an email I got this afternoon:

Today’s New York Times falsely states that the RNC has conceded the Ohio Senate race. As anyone who reads our FEC reports can see, the RNC has spent more money on Ohio than any other state. That level of spending will continue.
The notion that the RNC is pulling out of Ohio is just dead wrong.

Patrick Ruffini, a former blogger who’s currently working for the RNC on their e-campaign staff, sent the letter. Frankly, if it’s a credibility contest between Patrick and the NY Times, I’ll take Patrick’s word over the NY Times’ word every time.

Not only is the article wrong that the RNC isn’t pulling out of Ohio but the reverse is true in Minnesota.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has canceled its ad buy in Minnesota’s Senate race. A public file check at WCCO-TV shows that the DSCC has canceled the last two weeks of ads that were scheduled. That means the DSCC and the RNSC will not be running ads on behalf of Democrat Amy Klobuchar and Republican Mark Kennedy. Apparently, the two national parties think there are closer contests in other states. The New York Times has a story saying Senate Republicans are focusing on just a few races and Minnesota is not mentioned.

I’ll admit that I don’t agree with the NRSC’s decision against an ad buy. That is, unless they’re planning some heavy hitters visits between now and the election. It’d be great seeing Air Force One touching down at MSP a couple times between now and Election Day.

Technorati Tags: Election 2006, NRSC, DSCC, DeWine, Kennedy

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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