Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Oct 2018
A PAC is using the midterms to spotlight high drug prices. Why is it sinking millions into unwinnable races?
5 October 2018 - In 26 years in Congress, Republican Anna Eshoo has always won reelection by at least 20 points.
The Democrat is virtually certain to win big once again in November, buoyed largely by voters in her wealthy Silicon Valley district who do not struggle to pay for their prescription drugs.
So why is a political action committee focused on high drug prices bothering to sink $500,000 into attack ads against her?
The ad blitz from Patients for Affordable Drugs highlights the unorthodox tack the group is taking in the 2018 midterm elections: intervening in races in which there is no hope of altering the outcome.
