Donors don't produce the cash without polling numbers first. They had polling numbers & didn't show them because they were much lower than they expected. They just kept telling everyone whatever marketing rhetoric they wanted to hear: Duckworth will get 50% (+/-) of the vote. She's polling that well.
When the campaign's PR contractors never released any info of substance, it was obvious. Lots of marketing hyperbole, smoke & mirrors.
Duckworth will never survive Roskam. I'm certain he already has something & is just waiting for the right time to hit her with it during the election cycle.
I believe the "Friends of Tammy Duckworth" FEC report showed tens of thousands of dollars going to polling businesses. If those numbers had been any good, they would have leaked the numbers to the media to demoralize grassroots guerillas like the notorious M.I.C.
But they didn't. Instead, their surrogates kept saying they had great numbers that they were not releasing for long term tactical reasons.
It was bullsht -- I'd say self-evident bullsht -- but I fully expect the folks that fell for that line to do so again next time. While every claim from the Cegelis campaign was subject to intense scrutiny from the media, old and new, but they ate up every statement from the superflaks at the Duckworth campaign like it was made of sugar.
Just embarassing.
I am even more embarrassed for those who volunteered for Duckworth after watching her commercials and seeing all the media coverage. Do they believe everything they see on TV?
