Paulsen to call in national attack dogs
Hey, have you heard from Erik Paulsen at all? I know I sure haven’t heard much from him. He’s been running this campaign as if he was entitled to the seat, but now, all of the sudden, he’s realized that Ashwin Madia is breathing down his neck. The race is a statistical tie, and voters aren’t buying Paulsen’s claim that he’s a moderate like Jim Ramstad. Madia has already released two excellent ads, and Paulsen hasn’t begun to advertise yet. He’s in trouble!So what is he going to do? Well, what any good Republican would do — call in the national party to run negative ads against Iraq war veteran Ashwin Madia. Matt at MnPublius has the scoop:
the cash-strapped NRCC, with literally dozens of districts predicted to turn blue this fall, is rolling out a big ad buy [in CD3] September 10th. This is a full 20 days before the DCCC has said they’ll launch in the 3rd. This means two things: (1) The NRCC is scared out of their mind. They see Ash outperforming Paulsen by leaps and bounds, while Paulsen sits on his thumbs. (2) The NRCC has realized that if they sit on their thumbs as well any longer, Madia’s going to run away with it. We don’t know for sure, but odds are that the ad will be an attempt to bash Madia’s brains out.
The National Republican Congressional Committee, realizing that Paulsen is in big trouble, is going to spend a big chunk of their scarce resources in CD3 to try to turn the tide back to Paulsen. They’re desperate to win this race, and they think they have a window of opportunity to get out in from. Madia won’t get any national help until the end of the month, which means he needs our help.
Please make a contribution to help Ash fight of the RNCC. We need to help Madia raise $5000 by Saturday night. Let’s do our part!
(Of course, if anyone from the DSCC is reading, maybe you’d like to bump up your date for running ads in CD3?)
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Tags: Ashwin Madia, Erik Paulsen, MN-03
Election 2008 | 
Jeff Rosenberg | September 5, 2008
