Anyone got a cite?
Via Southern Beale in comments here, comes this:
Last month, voters across the country took a cue from the late Charlton Heston and pried the assault weapon from the NRA’s cold, dead hands.
Although the gun group unleashed everything in its arsenal to defeat Barack Obama and dozens of down ticket gun-control candidates, it lost by a margin as historic as the war chest it opened in an attempt to convince voters that Democrats were mortal enemies of the Second Amendment. Despite expending nearly $7 million in a national fear campaign, NRA-endorsed candidates lost 80 percent of their races against gun-control candidates. More than 90 percent of candidates endorsed by the NRA’s nemesis, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, won their races.
Anyone find a cite for that tidbit? It’s not consistent with numbers I have seen and, well, it is AlterNet.
Update: Yup, not consistent with the numbers I have seen. A summary of those can be found here.
Update: Here’s the cite. Brady Camp, surprise.
December 5th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
I’d guess the AlterNet writer got their facts from the Brady Campaign, which issued this post-election report, and which I daresay is at least as accurate a piece of propaganda as the NRA e-mail you linked to.
December 5th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Some marginal organization there, what with the win over National Park carry and all.