{"id":1704764,"date":"2022-10-20T17:49:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704764"},"modified":"2022-10-20T18:04:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T22:04:42","slug":"dems-shifting-campaign-money-from-safe-seats-to-even-safer-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-shifting-campaign-money-from-safe-seats-to-even-safer-seats\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Shifting Campaign Money From Safe Seats to Even Safer Seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdems-shifting-campaign-money-from-safe-seats-to-even-safer-seats%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704764&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Some \u201csafe seats\u201d aren\u2019t very safe anymore for suddenly vulnerable Democrats, and that has panicked PACs moving campaign dollars to protect previously invulnerable seats.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re down to the wire in Election 2022, and stuff just got real.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s news takes us to deep blue Oregon, where onetime shoo-in Kurt Schrader just got the rug pulled out from under him by his own Democrat Party as he fights off Republican Amy Ryan Courser. According to AdImpact (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshKraushaar\/status\/1583115763447365632\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as spotted by Josh Kraushaar<\/a>), party ad spending for Schrader in the 5th district was shifted to the 6th to boost Andrea Salinas against Republican Mike Erickson.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you\u2019re thinking this kind of thing happens all the time, and it does.<\/p>\n<p>But it doesn\u2019t often happen that Democrats appear to be writing off a district that Presidentish Joe Biden won in 2020 by <em>nine points<\/em>, to shore up a district that Biden won by <em>13 points<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If 10-and-up is the Democrats\u2019 new firewall, they\u2019re in bigger trouble than even I imagined. Complicating things even more for Oregon Democrats, gubernatorial candidate Tina Kotek (looking to replace the outgoing and execrable Kate Brown) regularly polls behind Republican Christine Drazan.<\/p>\n<p>Will Drazan have the coattails to pull along Courser and maybe even Erickson?<\/p>\n<p>I guess we\u2019ll know in about 19 days \u2014 although this being a three-way race, coattails may be difficult to find.<\/p>\n<p>It could very well be that Oregon is a special case since Portland has served as Ground Zero for some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/vodkapundit\/2022\/10\/19\/election-pre-post-mortem-all-the-democrats-had-to-do-was-not-be-f-crazy-n1638319\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">craziest progressive ideas<\/a> being put into terrible practice.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday I reported for you that right here in Colorado, various dark money groups were busy <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/vodkapundit\/2022\/10\/17\/red-wave-whispers-that-colorado-senate-seat-could-go-to-gop-n1637671\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">propping up<\/a> incumbent Democrat Michael Bennet\u2019s senate campaign, even though he\u2019s supposedly eight points up on GOP challenger Joe O\u2019Dea.<\/p>\n<p>The point isn\u2019t that voters are going to kick Bennet to the curb (as he so richly deserves) or turn Oregon red. The thing to remember though is that every dollar spent on \u201csafe\u201d races like the ones in Oregon and Colorado is a dollar not spent on closer races like Arizona and Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>And in the closing weeks of the campaign, Democrats are having to spend in places they had previously assumed were safe as houses.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Recommended:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/vodkapundit\/2022\/10\/18\/undercover-video-backfire-conservatives-go-crazy-for-gop-congressmans-call-to-break-up-the-fbi-n1637883\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Undercover Video Backfire: Conservatives Go Crazy for GOP Congressman\u2019s Call to Break Up the FBI<\/a><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/story\/2022-10-16\/national-democrats-ignoring-ohios-senate-race-are-they-blowing-a-big-chance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/em> warned on Monday that national Democrats seemed to have abandoned Tim Ryan in the Ohio Senate race against J.D. Vance.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have the national support that we want,\u201d Ryan complained last week.<\/p>\n<p>National Democratic officials say the party\u2019s funding decisions have been a matter of hard-nosed calculation \u2014 nothing personal.<\/p>\n<p>The party\u2019s first responsibility is to protect endangered incumbents like Sens. Raphael Warnock in Georgia and Catherine Cortez Masto in Nevada, they argue.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Republican Adam Laxalt currently leads Masto by a single point in Nevada, and Herschel Walker has finally gained traction against Warnock after his reassuring debate performance last week.<\/p>\n<p>Nationwide, Republicans currently lead on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/polling-institute\/documents\/monmouthpoll_us_102022.pdf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monmouth\u2019s generic ballot<\/a> by six points. That in and of itself is remarkable, but it becomes stunning when you see that 50% of voters prefer the GOP, instead of the more-typical 42- or 43-point ceiling in a winning year. That Monmouth poll isn\u2019t much of an outlier, either, with Hart, Harris, and Rasmussen all reporting <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/polls\/generic-ballot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">similar results<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But it gets worse. Check out these numbers for parents:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IAPolls2022\/status\/1583117869977833473\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1638666\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Monmouth-730x486-1.jpg\" alt=\"Safe Seats My A**\" width=\"730\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Monmouth-730x486-1.jpg 730w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Monmouth.jpg 886w\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Parents, who have deeper roots in their communities and are more likely to vote than singles are, are breaking R+35.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s yuge, maybe even unprecedented.<\/p>\n<p>All of this comes not much more than a week after <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2022\/10\/democrats-midterms-spending-republicans.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slate<\/a> declared that \u201cDemocrats are not spending big, but they are spending smarter. More specifically, they have broken out of their fixation on lavishing money on no-shot candidates in ruby red states.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Except now, some of those \u201cno-shot candidates\u201d are in sapphire blue districts.<\/p>\n<p>Funny, that.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, let\u2019s wrap up today\u2019s column with yet another non sequitur from you-know-who:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden, in Pittsburgh, to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/giselefetterman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@giselefetterman<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gisele, you\u2019re going to be a great, great lady in the Senate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seungminkim\/status\/1583152116629377024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, everybody knows Giselle is the de facto candidate.<\/p>\n<p>And nobody knows what Joe is doing \u2014 especially not Joe.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe Biden got lost again. <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zpIZLPoiYa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/zpIZLPoiYa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1583157376261103616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Chins up, happy warriors. I\u2019m not getting cocky about November 8, but the Democrats sure have me feeling good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some \u201csafe seats\u201d aren\u2019t very safe anymore for suddenly vulnerable Democrats, and that has panicked PACs moving campaign dollars to protect previously invulnerable seats. 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