Money, Money, Money

I read an article from the Burka Blog titled, Why did the GOP cut almost $900,000 from Lampson challenger Pete Olson.
The article is about Texas Congress candidates and the funding they have, or in Pete Olsen’s case, don’t have. Pete Olsen wants to be the U.S. Representative for Texas and take Nick Lampson’s, the democratic incumbent, place. Olsen feels betrayed by the NRCC, National Republican Congressional Committee, because they cut their planned spending of Olsen’s campaign. Olsen expected a little less than $1.5 million dollars. Instead he was cut off at about $600,000 leaving $900,000 out of his campaign.
The author of the article believes they cut the funds for several reasons. One, polls show Pete Olsen ahead of Nick Lampson in the race. So, spending money on him would be a waste if the outcome is pretty much already determined. I agree. The article also says that Olsen was already planning on spending his own money for the homestretch anyway.
The author attended the senatorial debate in Dallas and asked some of Cornyn’s people how things were going. They responded, “it’s within the margin of error”. It is a close race. Another reason, says the author, is that it is cheaper to campaign for incumbents and that keeping incumbents in office is the NRCC’s 1st priority.
These priorities are the races between John Culberson (incumbent R) v Michael Skelly (D) and Michael McCaul (incumbent R) v Larry Joe Doherty (D). Because McCaul won by small numbers in 2006, it seems more money would be spent by the NRCC on him rather than Olsen.
I feel the author is very straightforward and relies on facts and news to write their story. The majority of the article is an insert from another article from a website called RedState. The author uses the information to give sarcastic and small clues about their stance: Democratic. The article is meant for readers to understand the financial issues happening behind the races of Texas.
I like the author, but felt they could have put more insight into the article since it is a blog and not a mainstream way of news. I think some more sarcasm would have pushed that Republicans suck!