The GOP Firewall strategy is going up in flames ..Americablog

The GOP Firewall strategy is going up in flames
by Joe in DC - 10/16/2006 10:17:00 AM


BUMPED: Posted this last night, want to make sure it's not missed.

Just Friday, Time Magazine reported on the Republican's firewall strategy for the Senate. The GOP was pouring money in to three states -- Missouri, Ohio and Tennessee -- to stop a Democratic takeover of the Senate:

"The Senate's a top priority, and you'll see a tremendous amount of resources garnered to protect the majority there," says one G.O.P. strategist familiar with the party's planning. Says a Democratic strategist, "More attention than ever is being directed to the Senate races."

In what it is privately calling it's "firewall" strategy, the Republican National Committee has recently spent close to $4 million in three crucial Senate races — Ohio, Missouri and Tennessee — in the hope of holding Democratic gains to a maximum of five seats. No new RNC money has gone to House races during that time.
Looks like the Democratic surge has burned through the firewall. Cross Ohio off the list. The GOP is giving up on Mike DeWine:

At the start of the fall campaign, national Republican leaders developed a strategy to pour most of the national money into three states — Ohio, Tennessee and Missouri — to create a firewall against a Democratic takeover. One Republican Party official said Mr. DeWine’s continued problems in Ohio had convinced them to in effect rebuild a firewall that has now partly collapsed, and to find a state to replace it.

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/10/gop-firewall-strategy-is-going-up-in.html

Senior Republican leaders have concluded that Senator Mike DeWine of Ohio, a pivotal state in this year’s fierce midterm election battles, is likely to be heading for defeat and are moving to reduce financial support for his race and divert party money to other embattled Republican senators, party officials said. - NY Times

I've been trying to keep up with that blog so I appreciate the heads up. Really nailing this Foley stuff. Someone's gotta do it. (And someone else has to do the other stuff so that's my hat to those DU'ers concerned about Foley monomania.)

...because they will concentrate their cheating in Missouri, Ohio and Tennessee.

here's hoping that the GOP takes out a $20million loan that they can't pay back and it cripples them for decades

Virginia. Missouri and Tennesee are tilting into the Democratic column.