WASHINGTON _ If television viewers in Washington state's 8th Congressional District feel besieged by negative political advertising, there's a reason for that. Democrats have spent more on that congressional seat than any other nationwide over the last month, according to a McClatchy analysis. Republicans are just starting to respond.
Since the beginning of August, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has poured more than $1.4 million into the 8th District, mostly on TV ads attacking Dino Rossi, a veteran GOP politician seeking the open seat, according to campaign filings with Federal Elections Commission. He faces Kim Schrier, a pediatrician making her first run for office.
The Democrats' expenditures are more than double what they have spent on the open House seat in Florida's 26th District, the second-highest recipient of DCCC independent expenditures since early August.
