Koch Brothers
I guess money can’t buy everything…including the state of Pennsylvania.
Karl Rove’s Super PAC, Crossroads GPS, and the Koch Brother’s Americans for Prosperity have given up the ghost in the Keystone State and pulled their advertising dollars, conceding victory to President Obama. From The Daily Kos:
Two polls over the weekend confirmed the lopsided numbers—a Philly Inquirer poll gave Obama a 51-42 lead, while a Muhlenberg University poll gave him a 49-40 advantage.
In fact, the only pollsters to give Romney as much as 44 percent of the vote in the state was Rasmussen (of course), and Quinnipiac way back in March. The most recent Q-poll, in late July, had Obama winning 53-42.
The only surprise in Pennsylvania was that conservative groups were willing to keep pissing away their money in a state that clearly wasn’t going anywhere.
That leaves Mitt Romney’s Super PAC as the only conservative outfit left in the state, having spent nearly a million in the Keystone State this past week. Hopefully they keep pissing their money away here, because this state ain’t going nowhere.
To date, Crossroads GPS has forked over $2.8 million in advertising in Pennsylvania, while Americans for Prosperity have wasted $3.6 million, all to no avail.
However, it should be noted that Pennsylvania is one of the few states that has turned the tables on right-wing domination — whether by chance or through pressure. 16 of their legislators have dumped their membership in ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, funded by the Brothers Koch, and their state’s Supreme Court seems to have little to no patience for some of their “model legislation.”
Still, throwing that amount of money out the window toward a fruitless endeavor kinda makes me want to heave – it’s obscene and obnoxious – but it gives me hope, in a weird, twisted sort of way.
Just because you have the most dollars, doesn’t mean you’re gonna win – at least in Pennsylvania.
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With these guys money and the CIA and FBI rampt with Republicans somebody would have found where Obama was born if it was outside the US.
@Railroad Mike – It’s because they sent the same folks with no sense of direction that reported the non-existent Weapons of Mass Distraction back in the Bush error!
Thank you, good people of Pennsylvania!
if i ever sell my house in texas, i’m moving to pennsylvania!
I live in PA, and it is truly very beautiful here. HOWEVER, we have 1 Republican Senator, a Republican Governor, and Republican-dominated State Legislature. Rick Santorum was a Senator from PA. So if I move, I am moving to California, where they have 2 amazing Democratic Senators, a Democratic Governor, fantastic weather, and 2 of my kids.
I could not possibly agree with you more, Annie. I also live in Pennsylvania. While I do enjoy the varied seasons, and the return to cooler weather with the coming winter, I am no fan of the Republican control of the legislature here. It seems unlikely the Dems will win back the PA House any time soon.
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You need to get your family and friends to go vote for democrates……
you need to ((((((((((((( GET LOUDER ))))))))))))))
@Annie
I love your comment! Fantastic! Would you believe I am in red Indiana and I followed my kid?
Come on out. We would love to have you. Just don’t forget to bring some cheese steak and some Pittsburgh sandwiches.
I would stand up and cheer if it didn’t mean that the money is now going to other states. I’d just as soon they didn’t jump up their spending in, say, Michigan and Colorado.
I wouldn’t start packing until the PA Supreme Court rules on the Voter ID law in Sept. As long as that law stands, PA has troubles.
We need to not allow our votes to be for sale.
i always said it was a waste. pa always goes blue.
As a New Yorker who spent 9 years in Pennsylvania and who has protested at David Koch’s house, I will not believe this article until Election Day. They will not give up, they will pour more money in to PA. Stay vigilant and work your asses off.
You are so right they will pour more money ,
They are trapping ppl so they get nonchalant and then wam there you go
they are MEAN MACHINE…..
They know the voter suppression laws put in place will probably take care of the problem of too many Dems voting, so why waste their money needlessly.
You know what I love about this? These greedy plutocrats sat on their money all thru the crisis and refused to help Americans by hiring and investing so that they could make Obama fail by making us all fail.
Now they’ve loosened their pursestrings, spending millions in cash infusions all over the country, trying to buy the election.
But all that cash pumped into local economies all across the country is also helping us all finally do better. The economy was already turning around, this just makes it even better.
Americans are feeling more confident, Obama’s numbers are good, Romney didn’t even get a convention bouce – and Romney’s billionaires will keep pumping millions into the economy for the next 2 months in a desperate attempt to buy what they cannot fairly win.
There is a delicious irony here.
That cash isn’t going back into “economies”. It’s going into the pockets of lobbyists, billionaires, the likes of Karl Rove and the COC, Exxon-Mobil, Foster Freise, Americans for Austerity, Tony Perkin and his Right to Life Idiots, Freedomworks, Tea Party Express, Restoring our Future Superpac, et all and all the other big money pacs and special interest groups. The economies are not getting of it with Citizens Uniteds passing, all this unlimited money is to see which mega corporate donors who has the most bucks BUYS our President to “our small government that you can drown in a bathtub”. All that term really means is “government smal enough” for the corporations that really run the country to control, have too broke to serve and help the rest of the people in the country anymore, but see that the military is in perpetual war “for profit to keep the private contractors filthy rich”, Grover Norquist, Wall St and the uber to write the laws to keep manipulating the tax code to make THEM richer, let them get away with murder while no one else has NO rights at all, is pretty much slave labour and will stay there and THEIR rights are policed under what is a fascist nation. THAT’S what “small government” really means and “corporations are PEOPLE my friends” but YOU AREN’T.
I hope so but I am confused. I thought PA was at the level of court hearings where there are 3 democrats and 3 republicans voting on the voter id issue. The tie breaker would be a republican dude who is under investigation for fraud or something yucky. He is not allowed to vote. Given a tie vote then the law stands.
I do not think my state is in the clear of these laws as of yet.
Screw these Koch brothers and their money. We have to keep exposing them and the people brainwashed by them (somehow via fox and hate radio). But expose them in kind ways to those who are brainwashed. Do not sink to the levels of the some of the conservative posters on other sites. In PA we will, hopefully, vote the Koch type elected officials out. The problem is the people like the, the Koch brothers, are funding anti-normal people legislation in all areas of American life. We must somehow inform the people who are twisted by the likes of koch brothers. Those who somehow believe that their own interests are the same of these rich men and their bought legislators. I do not get it?
It’s that rotten voter ID law there that concerns me that so far DID NOT get overturned and still could result in millions of voters getting turned away at the polls who would likely vote democratic. I do live there but in WI where we have the biggest Koch backed funded snake and liar in office who got re-elected by outspending his opponent and having over 5 months to freely campaign before the dems were even allowed to select a candidate, much less OPPOSE him so Walker was all over the country fundraising unopposed telling his massive lies…Don’t get complacent over there PA as that is what these crooks WANT so do what you have to get those Unonstitutional ID, be prepared and VOTE and TURN out. You must like your lives depend on because they DO!!!
Why haven’t we heard more about this?????