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| How the Dems Burned $40 mil to Lose 4 Elections and Scam Supprters |
| 2017-06-23 |
| [Frontpage] Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism. "It’s a bellwether for what the Democratic Party is going to be about," Democratic National Committee boss Tom Perez boasted. That was back in March and the Dems had just begun their frantic spending spree in Georgia’s Sixth. By the time it was over, Jon Ossoff, an awkward immature hipster who didn’t even live in the district, had raised $23.6 million and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had burned through another $5 million. Other groups threw in around $2.6 million to achieve absolutely nothing. $31 million had been spent and wasted on history’s most expensive congressional election. And the Dem experts congratulated themselves that they had lost by a smaller margin than in the past. They had spent $30 million more than in their first special election in Kansas to gain a whole 1%. Just as after their previous special election defeats, the charts and graphs came out comparing their performance to those of previous elections. Never mind that turnout differs dramatically during presidential and special elections. Or that spending $31 million to lose by 6 percent is a disaster. What the Democrat Party really was going to be about was setting piles of money on fire. In Montana, a quixotic bid by Rob Quist had garnered $5 million in donations and another $1 million in outside spending. Even after a stunt by a Guardian reporter caused the Republican candidate to lose many of his newspaper endorsements, Quist barely ended up with 44 percent. The special election frenzy began in Kansas when the left decided that Rep. Mike Pompeo’s open seat might be winnable. After Trump’s victory, angry Dems decided to pour money into the campaign. Democrat James Thompson raised around $832,000, but Republican Ron Estes won by 7 percent. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 Most expensive and accurate poll possible to determine that most people in red states think Dems are bit icky. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-06-23 17:04 |
| #2 What the Democrat Party really was going to be about was setting piles of money on fire. So now they're treating their money like they have treated ours. Old habits die hard. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-06-23 16:32 |
| #1 In the Georgia House race the Dems spent all that money and didn't gain a vote over the Dem vote in the previous election. At first people (Repubs) might have just stayed home in disgust at the whole thing, but at some point they got irritated enough to come out and vote against Mr. Moneybags. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2017-06-23 15:18 |