The DCCC released a statement today, touting “a paid advertising and grassroots campaign to hold 25 vulnerable House Republicans accountable for choosing to end Medicare.” The “choosing to end Medicare” line refers, of course, to the House GOPers vote in favor of Paul Ryan’s Path to Prosperity. The DCCC goes on to promise: “In 25 targeted districts, the DCCC will be running news-weather-traffic radio ads, web ads, automated and live phone calls, and sending nearly 4.5 million “action alert” e-mails throughout the next two weeks.”
Sounds impressive. But as The Corner’s Ramesh Ponnnuru notes with help from American Crossroads, the actual money put down by the DCCC will not leave any GOPer quaking in their boots:
(Note: these figures are in dollars, not thousands of dollars):
AR 1 $60 AR 2 $160 CA 3 $400 CO 3 $60 FL 8 $200 FL 10 $340 FL 13 $220 FL 16 $184 FL 25 $184 IA 3 $180 IA 4 $120 IL 17 $60 IN 8 $40 MI 1 $160 MI 6 $260 MN 8 $160 NH 2 $80 NY 25 $80 OH 1 $300 SD AL $60 TX 23 $240 WI 1 $300 WI 7 $400
We wonder how one decides to spend say, $40 in Terre Haute vs say, $300 in Dayton. We’re sure that extra $260 will put some challenger over the top some 19 months from now.
