We can take some solace in the fact that some of the big money from the Super-PACs, Karl Rove, Koch brothers, invisible donors, and so on are being pulled from presidential ads in swing states. That’s the good news. The bad is that it looks like it’s starting to be reallocated to Senate races around the country.
With Romney seemingly incapable of going a day without some kind of major gaffe and Obama’s path to re-election becoming clearer, we need to concentrate much of our GOTV efforts in holding the Senate.
One of the most important duties of the Senate, of course, is putting nominated judges on the bench. If the President Obama is re-elected, but the Senate goes red, there will be few to any judges allowed to get through the process – including the Supreme Court justices we expect to retire in the next four years. We already know that through the use of the filibuster and other procedural methods, the Republicans have stopped most of the president’s nominations.