Republican Strategist: $1,000,000 needed to defend MS-01

The national press is buzzing about the special election results from last Tuesday. While they are shocked to see a Democrat winning such a red district, most all express concern for the Republican party in November. The RNCC only has around 8 million cash on hand, while their counterparts the DCCC has over 30 million to spend. You don't have to be an expert to realize it is an act of defense for the GOP to have to drop funds in a R+10 district. As of yesterday the total expenditures for the RNCC in MS-01 was around $570,000. The DCCC has spent around $375,000 on the Childers for Congress campaign.

Now today comes this from the Chicago Sun Times columnist Robert Novak.

Million-dollar seat

Stunned by results of Tuesday's special congressional election in Mississippi, Republican strategists are saying it will require spending at least $1 million to save the House seat for the GOP.

The Democratic candidate, County Clerk Travis Childers, fell only 700 votes shy of winning the strongly conservative northern Mississippi district outright without a runoff. Massive financial help from Washington is expected by Republican strategists to be necessary to save the seat for Southaven Mayor Greg Davis against Childers in the May 13 runoff. The seat, in a district that George W. Bush carried for president in 2004 with 62 percent of the vote, became vacant when Republican Roger Wicker was appointed to the Senate.

Childers, a social conservative, is better known through the district than Davis. The Democrat's strong showing Tuesday also reflected the nationwide Republican malaise, which extends even to the Deep South.

That is a lot of bread for the GOP to spend in Mississippi. This is money that can't be used in other races across the nation.

Let's donate to Childers for Congress and help him overcome the RNCC expenditures. We can't wait around for the DCCC to come riding in. In my estimation the DCCC is focused on the LA-06 special election coming up Saturday, where the Dems stand a good chance of flipping their second seat of the season.