Here’s the latest numbers that I’m getting:

Hackett: $350,000 (on TV and Radio)
Schmidt: $162,000

DCCC: $244,000
NRCC: $350,000

That means that the Hackett campaign has about 20% more in media buys.

Republican blogger NixGuy thinks that Hackett advertising actually does him harm since it just informs Republicans that there’s an election going on and they’ll vote for Schmidt anyway. Personally, we’ve always felt that the constant talk about this being a district totally owned by the Republicans was the case of people getting high off their own supply. You don’t just get people’s votes, you have to earn them. Jean Schmidt isn’t George Bush and Paul Hackett isn’t Charles Sanders. Watching people use those numbers to predict the election has been funny as hell.