According to AP, Republicans are conceding defeat in the battle to hold the majority in Congress. The AP says that they are taking resources away from candidates deemed to far gone to win and putting it into races that have a better chance of success.
What can I say? Oh, the horror!
Actually, this is an idiotic bit of reporting. Every election, resources get taken from races deemed lost and put into races with a greater chance of success. Don't believe me? In the last week, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee dropped ad buys that they had reserved in at least six districts that the DCCC decided were too far gone to continue to contest. They put the cash into races for which they thought they had better chances.
So maybe the AP can explain why when the Democrats move cash from one race to another, they are not conceding defeat, but when the GOP does it, the opposite is true?
The reality is that this article is part of the campaign to discourage Republican voters so that they won't show up at the polls. It won't work. At this point, no self respecting Republican would believe anything that the AP put out. Indeed, in the last two weeks, the pundits agree, the Senate has moved from a position where the Dems had some possibility of taking control to a position in which the GOP is likely to increase its margin in the Senate from 51-49 to more like 55-45. In the House, during the same time, races that have moved away from the toss up category have gone by about a 4 to 1 margin to the GOP. That doesn't sound like something for which one would admit defeat.
We won't know who controls the House for another three weeks. One thing is certain, though, the Republicans are not going to give up on the House or the Senate.
What can I say? Oh, the horror!
Actually, this is an idiotic bit of reporting. Every election, resources get taken from races deemed lost and put into races with a greater chance of success. Don't believe me? In the last week, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee dropped ad buys that they had reserved in at least six districts that the DCCC decided were too far gone to continue to contest. They put the cash into races for which they thought they had better chances.
So maybe the AP can explain why when the Democrats move cash from one race to another, they are not conceding defeat, but when the GOP does it, the opposite is true?
The reality is that this article is part of the campaign to discourage Republican voters so that they won't show up at the polls. It won't work. At this point, no self respecting Republican would believe anything that the AP put out. Indeed, in the last two weeks, the pundits agree, the Senate has moved from a position where the Dems had some possibility of taking control to a position in which the GOP is likely to increase its margin in the Senate from 51-49 to more like 55-45. In the House, during the same time, races that have moved away from the toss up category have gone by about a 4 to 1 margin to the GOP. That doesn't sound like something for which one would admit defeat.
We won't know who controls the House for another three weeks. One thing is certain, though, the Republicans are not going to give up on the House or the Senate.
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