Contact Politics #57-Andy Smith, UNH Survey Center Director

This next Tuesday, Brad, one month to go.

One month to go before the midterms.

We're going to have a great guest coming up in a little bit who's been tracking this stuff for a long time on the survey side.

But, Brad.

The picture may change in October, but is this picture forming in states like Texas and Ohio? We had our own White House correspondent, John Decker, on my morning show saying Republicans nationally are pouring tens of millions of dollars into places like Texas and Ohio that typically are red states.

Yeah, Ohio is the most expensive state right now.

Over $300 million going into that race.

And Michigan's next up in line with like $159 million or something to that effect.

It's crazy how much money is being spent in these elections.

But are these states that typically you'd expect that? Or is that a sign of Republicans not doing well in the midterms?

No, I think it's, I mean, these are must-win states, right? Michigan would be a pickup.

And which is great.

And Ohio would be a hold, obviously, Senator Houston there.

And that's a tough race.

He's running against a former long term United States senator and Sherrod Brown.

And it is super contentious.

Very, very expensive.

When Bernie Marino beat Sherrod Brown.

That was the most expensive race in the country.

So Ohio was an expensive place to campaign.

It's a pretty big state, some big cities, a lot of media.

It's expensive.

Yeah, I just...

What I'm saying, Brad, is I'm getting a feeling when I talk to John Decker again, when you've been on my morning show and you've been a host of it, Brad Card, here we are, Contact Politics, you've had John Decker on, White House correspondent for many decades, many cycles, and he calls balls and strikes right down the middle.

You know that.

This next Tuesday, Brad, one month to go.

One month to go before the midterms.

We're going to have a great guest coming up in a little bit who's been tracking this stuff for a long time on the survey side.

But, Brad.

The picture may change in October, but is this picture forming in states like Texas and Ohio? We had our own White House correspondent, John Decker, on my morning show saying Republicans nationally are pouring tens of millions of dollars into places like Texas and Ohio that typically are red states.

Yeah, Ohio is the most expensive state right now.

Over $300 million going into that race.

And Michigan's next up in line with like $159 million or something to that effect.

It's crazy how much money is being spent in these elections.

But are these states that typically you'd expect that? Or is that a sign of Republicans not doing well in the midterms?

No, I think it's, I mean, these are must-win states, right? Michigan would be a pickup.

And which is great.

And Ohio would be a hold, obviously, Senator Houston there.

And that's a tough race.

He's running against a former long term United States senator and Sherrod Brown.

And it is super contentious.

Very, very expensive.

When Bernie Marino beat Sherrod Brown.

That was the most expensive race in the country.

So Ohio was an expensive place to campaign.

It's a pretty big state, some big cities, a lot of media.

It's expensive.

Yeah, I just...

What I'm saying, Brad, is I'm getting a feeling when I talk to John Decker again, when you've been on my morning show and you've been a host of it, Brad Card, here we are, Contact Politics, you've had John Decker on, White House correspondent for many decades, many cycles, and he calls balls and strikes right down the middle.

You know that.