Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Outside Spending Shows How Few of the House Races Are Competitive

The New York Times reports:
How small is the field of competitive House races? So narrow that just 25 contests account for 80 percent of all reported outside spending in the general election.

The Cook Political Report rates 38 seats either as tossups or leaning toward one party or the other, but among groups operating outside the district like super PACs, the concentration is even tighter: Half of all independent spending reported to the Federal Election Commission for general election races has gone to just a dozen seats, with two apiece in Arizona and Illinois.
The great moments of politics .