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« on: December 25, 2006, 10:43:48 AM »

Final fundraising figures show Dole's committee raised $30 million less than the Democratic counterpart headed by Sen. Charles Schumer of New York.

Burns and Sen. George Allen lost exceedingly close races - the margin of defeat a fraction of a percentage point. A victory in either one would have left the Senate tied at 50-50, giving Republicans control on Vice President Cheney's ability to break tie votes.

Two more weeks of ads in Montana might have made a difference, said one of many Republicans who expressed anger that Dole's committee aired no television advertisements in Burns' behalf for between Labor Day and Halloween.

In Virginia, Allen and the Senate campaign committee combined were outspent on television advertising in each of the last five weeks by challenger Jim Webb and the Democratic campaign committee, according to internal GOP figures. The gap exceeded $700,000 in the final seven days.

Burns, a three-term senator who was under constant attack for ties to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, and the NRSC aired no television commercials in September or October after committee aides concluded he appeared hopelessly behind. That left Burns to face double-barreled televised attacks from his rival, Jon Tester, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which spent $1.4 million over the same period.

"You'd turn on the television at night and they'd typically have ... three ads whacking Conrad and then we'd have one," said one Republican.

In a similar vein, campaign officials said the GOP senatorial committee was off the air for two weeks in Missouri in early September, leaving Talent without protection as he faced attacks from Democratic challenger Claire McCaskill and the Democrats' Senate campaign committee.

Unlike in Montana or Missouri, the NRSC had budgeted no money for Virginia, where Allen initially appeared to face little threat. After a mistake-plagued campaign, though, the first-term senator had burned through his sizable campaign treasury by fall.

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« Reply #1 on: December 25, 2006, 03:27:21 PM »

"The ads hurt me more than they helped."

-- Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT), quoted by the AP, on the commercials the NRSC ran on his behalf during his failed reelection campaign.

I think Burns killed himself is a better assessment of Montana as opposed to the GOP and Dole kiled Burns.
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« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2006, 12:32:33 PM »

agreed........Burns did himself in.
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« Reply #3 on: December 29, 2006, 06:32:46 AM »

He ended up coming surprisingly close... maybe because they stopped running ads? Wink
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« Reply #4 on: December 31, 2006, 09:06:27 PM »

Well, I don't think the ads would of helped that much he was losing by 7 pts in August of 2006 and never really came back from that when they were running alot of ads. If he didn't make that foolish firefighter comment it would of maybe helped him. And that is a big "if".
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« Reply #5 on: January 01, 2007, 10:14:41 AM »

Burns and Allen have no one but themselves to blame for their defeats. Like most politicians, they have trouble with accountability. Neither had any business losing, but due to their own ineptness, they found themselves in trouble. Could the NRSC have been run better? Of course it could have, but that shouldn't have been an issue in these races.
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