BRANSON MO NEWS:
WASHINGTON • Outside political groups have flooded Missouri’s Senate race with more than $26 million in campaign spending so far, a majority of it favoring incumbent Sen. Roy Blunt, according to the latest reports collected by a national campaign watchdog group.But national Democratic groups, pivoting from helping their presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to down-ballot races, appear to be closing that gap in the final 12 days of the 2016 campaign.According to the latest Federal Election Commission data gathered by the Center for Responsive Politics, roughly $17 million has been spent against Democratic Secretary of State Jason Kander, Blunt’s opponent, or on behalf of Blunt.
About $9 million million has been spent attacking Blunt or praising Kander.Politico reported recently that that trend may be reversing, however. Its ad-tracking services indicated that Democrats and allied groups had reserved about $8.1 million in pro-Kander advertising time to run in Missouri from Oct. 11-Nov. 8, compared with $6.4 million favoring Blunt.The spending from outside groups already dwarfs the roughly $16 million that outside groups spent during Sen. Claire McCaskill’s victory over Republican Rep. Todd Akin, a campaign in which national GOP interest and fundraising slowed after Akin’s controversial remarks about “legitimate rape” turned that race …
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