Parties pour 11th-hour cash into close races

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-11-05-elections-money_x.htm

Parties pour 11th-hour cash into close races

Updated 11/6/2006 12:06 AM ET

By Jill Lawrence, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — Both political parties are making huge last-minute cash infusions into close House and Senate races, underscoring their traditional importance in endgame spending and the Democrats' new financial competitiveness with Republicans.

Just since Friday, Republicans have put more than $2 million into Senate races in New Jersey, Tennessee and Virginia, federal reports show. Democrats have spent $1.1 million for Senate candidates in Maryland, Montana, Tennessee and Virginia.

On the House side, Republicans spent $1.1 million in a single day to help Peter Roskam hold off Democrat Tammy Duckworth in Illinois. And in a sign of continuing concern, the GOP invested $275,000 to help their embattled House campaign chief, New York Rep. Tom Reynolds.

A check of 10 tight House races shows that as of Friday, Democratic party committees had spent nearly as much as Republicans in Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio and Washington. They outspent Republicans in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Arizona.

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1. Well I would think so. If you believe in some thing you do not

give up. Just look at the Last Czar, Kaiser, Tojo, Lenin and Hitler. And we could add Churchill and FDR. Not one really gave up on their belief. Bush thinks he is right. Any one recall Nixon at the end? The people who think like this will stick with it even if they do not win. I know few believe me but few will let it go so it in why things change but slowly. Both sides will give it a try up to the end and then usually wait if they didn't for another time. Bushes base seemed to think two big things. One the Churches should run the govt. and laissez fairer style business should be top dog. Two bases and two beliefs. It will still be with us win or not.