Traction in Montana?
ShareDid NRSC Chairman Elizabeth Dole know that Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT) was going up with an Abramoff ad when she held her press briefing Monday?
We ask because one day after Dole told reporters that corruption was "not something that is going to get a lot of traction" in the '06 cycle, Burns, one of her most vulnerable incumbents, aired a TV ad (his first this cycle) in which he mentions Jack Abramoff by name and tacitly acknowledges that the scandal is causing him headaches. Sounds like traction to us.
Brian Nick, the NRSC's communications director, said Dole meant to suggest that corruption is not gaining traction as a partisan issue that can be used exclusively against GOPers. "It depends on what your definition of traction is," he said. [JOHN MERCURIO]
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