rssIn Alaska, Joe Miller Was Unknown, But Not Outgunned
Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 3:04 pm
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The ballots are still being tallied in Alaska — at last count, Joe Miller remains in the lead over Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in the GOP primary by a mere 1,660 votes — but in the meantime everyone is asking the same question: where did Miller come from?
Sarah Palin’s endorsement undoubtedly gave him the credibility he needed among the Tea Party faithful, but the money to carry that message out ended up coming from elsewhere. The Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) notes that while Miller was down by over 30 points as recently as mid-July, he started to receive some major backing in the form of independent expenditures from the Our Country Deserves Better PAC soon after. The group, better known as the Tea Party Express, has poured approximately $550,000 into the race since that time, according to recent filings with the FEC, and spent almost all of it on media buys:
Incredibly, the group spent $314,000 during the final week before the August 24 election, primarily on advertising buys for television and radio channels throughout Alaska, such as KYES-TV, Channel 2 KTUU, Fox 4 KTBY and KAKN Radio, among others. [...]
You can watch the Tea Party Express TV ads here, here and here. You can listen to its radio ad here, and a robo-call from Sarah Palin here.
CRP even made a nice graph that illustrates the history of the Tea Party Express’s independent expenditures supporting Miller:
Murkowski still raised and spent a lot more money on the race than Miller. She took in more than $3.5 million for her reelection, but it doesn’t look like she was particularly worried about Miller catching up. FEC fillings indicate she only spent $810,500 between July 1 and August 4 — barely more than outside groups like Tea Party Express were pouring in during that period. Miller may have been an unknown and a long shot, but independent expenditures made it so he was hardly outgunned.
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