Today, the DSCC made some pretty unsurprising expenditures. They cut ads against Republicans John Raese, W.Va., Linda McMahon, Conn., Ken Buck, Colo., and Rand Paul, Ky. They also made a $576,000 ad buy against Dino Rossi.
The DCCC’s most notable ad buys, on the other hand, go to a handful of districts which, with a few exceptions, probably no one would have expected a month ago:
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Tom Emmer, the Republican nominee for governor of Minnesota, has made a few gaffes. He’s also running against one of the worst senators the state ever had — Mark Dayton, D — and an independent candidate who will perform strongly on Election Day, as independent candidates often do in Minnesota.
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Late yesterday, Gallup came out with new numbers on the generic ballot question—which party’s candidates would you vote for in the election for House of Representatives?
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Four states held primary elections yesterday (actually a runoff primary in Georgia). The most dramatic contests were in Colorado, which has voted 1% more than the national average for the winner of the last two presidential elections—54%-45% for Barack Obama in 2008, 52%-47% for George W. Bush in 2004.
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An interesting night of election returns from Georgia (whose secretary of state, unlike those of Colorado and Minnesota, is doing a good job of sharing incoming election results).
As I write, Nathan Deal is leading Karen Handel in the Republican runoff for governor by a 50.4%-49.6% margin. That’s a 4,382-vote margin out of 560,189 counted.
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