How does the Republican Party find such crazy ways to burn its cash in the last days of an election? Back in 2000, Karl Rove poured $20 million into ads in California and lost by 11%. Part of how we won back the Senate in 2006 was that Republicans threw money into hopeless offensives in Michigan and New Jersey. While they got crushed there, we squeaked by in MT and VA to set up Jon Tester and Jim Webb.
And this time, the RNC is throwing money at... Montana? Okay, maybe it's close in some polls. But any wave that would take away Montana will make the game totally unwinnable. Commenters at Yglesias' site say that they're just trying to paint their post-defeat maps. They can have that if I can have an extra 1% for Jim Martin.
