A helpful reminder from TPM Reader MR:
Nice post . . . regarding Rove’s . . . last minute PR maneuvering in Michigan, MD, & NJ (ie, your reminder about his near-disaster victory lap in the last days of election 2000). As it turned out you were right on the button, and one has to laugh out loud at the thought that the boy genius threw $$ down the toilet in those three states that could’ve been very helpful to repubs elsewhere.
Here’s the post Josh did last week about Rove sending Bush to California instead of Florida on the last day of the 2000 campaign, a cocky move designed to project confidence that nearly cost Bush the presidency.
You do have to wonder whether Sens. Burns and Allen might have made up their narrow margins of defeat if some of the millions of dollars spent by the national GOP to “enlarge” the playing field for control of the Senate had instead been spent in Montana and Virginia, respectively.
Just goes to show that it’s easy to be dubbed a genius so long as you win.
