@crazylikeafox Said
I can't seem to find that breakdown, and I'm getting too frustrated with Google to keep looking. But if it's my bias, it's a bias shared by many, many Coloradans. Even the Denver Post saw it. There's a reason why Udall was nicknamed "Mark Uterus" by the people while Gardner mostly had jabs at being from Yuma thrown at him.
Nah. It's the bias.
Cash on hand
UDALL $536,332
GARDNER $1,875,029
Candidate Fundraising
UDALL $15,178,446
GARDNER $10,622,587
Candidate Spending
UDALL $16,000,822
GARDNER $9,212,759
Outside Spending For
UDALL $6,274,693
GARDNER $8,595,883
Outside Spending Against
UDALL $22,845,298
GARDNER $29,797,016
https://realtime.influenceexplorer.com/race/2014/S/CO/2/
DENVER — The closely watched $94 million Colorado Senate race can be seen as a proxy fight between Karl Rove, the co-founder one of the nation’s ur-dark money groups, the conservative Crossroads GPS, and the hedge-fund-guru turned environmental Super PAC sugar daddy Tom Steyer.
Crossroads GPS sunk more money into negative ads against Udall than it did against any other candidate nationwide — $8.7 million.
And NextGen Climate Action Committee, the Super PAC funded largely through more than $55 million in infusions by Steyer, also spent more on negative ads against Gardner than any other candidate — $6.8 million.
Indeed, the two groups spent more than any other outside groups in the race except the more traditional sources of outside money, the party committees. They also nearly matched or outspent those party committees: the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee spent $8.1 million against Gardner; and the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, which spent $6 million against Udall.
https://www.coloradoindependent.com/150270/in-colorado-karl-rove-gardner-beats-tom-steyer-udall