The well-oiled machines

Posted at 3:41 PM on June 22, 2006 by Bob Collins (2 Comments)

A lot of campaign folks read Polinaut; I know this because a lot of campaign folks -- and the occasional blog surrogate -- complain about Polinaut. Such is life. But may I just offer this piece of advice to the campaigns in the Senate race? I don't think the attempt to paint the other as the candidate of big money is going to work because I think folks recognize -- and the numbers suggest they recognize correctly -- that the two candidates are candidates of big money. Why? Well, because they have it; they're hauling it in by the bucketload. Is there another definition I'm missing?

The press releases that result often sound like a "your fat, rich moneybag is richer than my fat, rich moneybag." You know, I'm just not sure that's a situation that resonates -- at least well -- with voters.

Folks, this is a big-money race and a glance at the contributors to both of the major candidates -- Amy Klobuchar and Mark Kennedy (links open contributor lists)-- are raking in the dough and it ain't coming from just Auntie Louise. And we're not even talking about PACs yet.

Every time either one has a fundraiser at a big name's house, the press releases crank out from the other side.

I think it's probably too late to put the genie back in the bottle on this one. Money's going to be pouring into both campaigns between now and November. And nobody's in a hurry to shut off the tap .

Comments (2)

Bravo, Bob. Well stated. I hope the campaigns listen.

Posted by Minntelect | June 22, 2006 9:30 PM

Yes, all THREE of them.

Posted by Mark Gisleson | June 23, 2006 7:13 AM

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