IL & WI Senate races: Koch brothers cancel their backing for Johnson

[IceSpear]

I'm going to guess a certain someone's reply before I read this thread:

"No amount of money can make Climbing Maggie fall. They might as well be throwing it down a sinkhole. It's a bigger waste than donating to Jeb Bush's Super PAC."

[IceSpear]

Well, I was close enough.

In all seriousness, there are some interesting choices here. Not only the fact that they omitted Kirk and Johnson, who we already knew were likely doomed, but the fact that they included MO (a race that has been under the radar for a while but has all the makings of an upset) and NV (we haven't had any idea what's going on here, this suggests it's close.)

I'm guessing NH is because they see it as the tipping point race, and they need to try to put a dent in Hassan's numbers which have recently improved. The omission of AZ is interesting...maybe they don't want to intervene and be seen as supporting McCain? Or maybe they don't want to waste time boosting McCain's image when they might have to prop up Kelli Ward later instead? A lot of interesting possibilities here.

They must not be very worried about Grassley and Burr though, possibly becaue their challengers aren't as strong as in many of these other seats.

[IceSpear]

Freedom Partners Action Fund Super PAC (Koch brothers) have cancelled their $2.2 million ad buy for August and September for Johnson

LOL, poor Johnson. Abandoned by his own puppetmasters.