MA: Sen. Scott Brown (R) has big fundraising advantage

[Tender Branson]

Scott Brown Raised Nearly $2M, Has $9.6M in Bank

Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown (R) raised nearly $2 million in the second quarter and had a whopping $9.6 million in cash on hand at the end of June, according to the Boston Globe.

Brown faces a tough re-election in strong Democratic territory, but his prospects should be buoyed by his substantial war chest. Democrats have made the Republican their primary target for 2012, and some people on the right have complained he is not conservative enough.

Brown won his Senate seat in the special election in January 2010 to fill the vacancy left by the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy (D).

Six Democrats are competing in the Bay State primary to take on Brown next year. One of them, City Year co-founder Alan Khazei, released his fundraising numbers Tuesday. He raised more than $920,000 in the quarter.

http://www.rollcall.com/news/Scott-Brown-Fundraising-Second-Quarter-207051-1.html?pos=adp

[dwkulcsar]

Honestly Scott Brown's money can probably inundate Mass voters to the point that they scare off the DSCC since the DSCC has not gotten a candidate they endorse yet.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Honestly Scott Brown's money can probably inundate Mass voters to the point that they scare off the DSCC since the DSCC has not gotten a candidate they endorse yet.

There's a point at which the rate of return for advertising becomes negative. Ask Linda McMahon or Meg Whitman how spending and spending and spending worked for them. No way will the DSCC just sit this one out, since it's one of two pickup opportunities they have this cycle.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Honestly Scott Brown's money can probably inundate Mass voters to the point that they scare off the DSCC since the DSCC has not gotten a candidate they endorse yet.

There's a point at which the rate of return for advertising becomes negative. Ask Linda McMahon or Meg Whitman how spending and spending and spending worked for them. No way will the DSCC just sit this one out, since it's one of two pickup opportunities they have this cycle.

Boston is an expensive market, and there are other (albeit cheaper) markets in the state to buy ads in, too. A warchest of $9.6M at this point is huge, but it's far from the kind of "saturation" money that McMahon and Whitman spent.

[Kevin]

Honestly Scott Brown's money can probably inundate Mass voters to the point that they scare off the DSCC since the DSCC has not gotten a candidate they endorse yet.

There's a point at which the rate of return for advertising becomes negative. Ask Linda McMahon or Meg Whitman how spending and spending and spending worked for them. No way will the DSCC just sit this one out, since it's one of two pickup opportunities they have this cycle.

I mean it has mixed results Jon Crozine spent something like $60 million in his run for Senate and equally large sums of cash in his two governorship races. Likewise in Virginia, Warner spent huge sums also in his run for the State Governorship that would count as saturation in any sense.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Honestly Scott Brown's money can probably inundate Mass voters to the point that they scare off the DSCC since the DSCC has not gotten a candidate they endorse yet.

There's a point at which the rate of return for advertising becomes negative. Ask Linda McMahon or Meg Whitman how spending and spending and spending worked for them. No way will the DSCC just sit this one out, since it's one of two pickup opportunities they have this cycle.

I mean it has mixed results Jon Crozine spent something like $60 million in his run for Senate and equally large sums of cash in his two governorship races. Likewise in Virginia, Warner spent huge sums also in his run for the State Governorship that would count as saturation.

Warner only spent $20 million in 2001, which was almost twice what Earley spent, but not nearly in the league of the others. And consider that Corzine spent huge sums of money just to win by 3% in 2000 and lose by 4% in 2009. Yeah, he won by a decent margin in 2005, but that was as much a function of Doug Forrester being a terrible candidate to run for statewide office in New Jersey.