Is this more Internals than usual for this time of year?

[Lunar]

Seems like it.

Not a bad campaign strategy for a House race I guess?  Drop $10k on a poll, weight it so you're ahead, and have it be the only piece of statistical information reporters have on the race.

[Lief 🗽]

Perhaps campaigns feel that right now is about the time that donors (and campaign committees) are beginning to make the triage choices, deciding who needs their money, who can probably do without it, and who is such a long-shot that their donations would be a waste?

The DCCC just recently released the seats it would be buying add-time in, for instance (though I assume the DCCC probably has its own internal pollsters).

[Sam Spade]

Perhaps campaigns feel that right now is about the time that donors (and campaign committees) are beginning to make the triage choices, deciding who needs their money, who can probably do without it, and who is such a long-shot that their donations would be a waste?

The DCCC just recently released the seats it would be buying add-time in, for instance (though I assume the DCCC probably has its own internal pollsters).

This is not that far from the truth, really. 

The DCCC seat-map purchase is more bullish than what I'm seeing right now, but that's to be expected at this point, since ad buys can be changed as conditions do, and right now you want portray a message of confidence in your planning.

[Lunar]

The trend continues.

[Bo]

I doubt it. I just think more of them are getting released due to the unusually large role and influence of the media this year.

[Torie]

The reason for more internals is that things are shifting, and rapidly, dumping loads of new seats into play, and so the GOP is just doing an info dump to spread the "good news," in hopes of picking up more cash, or getting corporations to spend several tens of millions more on "independent" ads trashing Dems in the right media markets. Expect to see a cascade of them in the next month. The "in play" list has some more expanding to do.