Must-read Nick Confessore NYT: Over the last year and a half, the conservative outside groups retooled and revamped, borrowing lessons about how to exploit voter data, opposition research and advertising learned from their less moneyed but more effective Democratic counterparts… Continue reading

See this press release.

Important Ken Vogel analysis that surely won’t be the last word on this topic: Establishment Republican money finally got what it paid for — an electoral wave. After two cycles during which conservative megadonors’ record spending was plagued by flawed … Continue reading

Of all the candidates they backed, only Walter Jones (R-NC) and Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) succeeded. And I don’t know that MayDay money mattered in those races. Would like to learn more.