In an email to his mailing list, Fox News contributor Dick Morris credits his Super PAC for America with making the difference in Republican victories in “five to ten” House seats. He also cites 28 Republican candidates who won after he was “personally involved advising the campaigns and working to help them raise money.”
Media Matters has extensively documented Morris' extensive campaigning for GOP candidates and causes, both in the 2010 election cycle and before. Following his longstanding pattern, Morris used his Fox News platform to promote Super PAC for America.
From Morris' email:
As background, I divided my efforts into two categories: there were races where I was personally involved advising the campaigns and working to help them raise money. There were others in which Super PAC was involved in independent efforts. I had no personal involvement in those races and was, therefore, able to raise funds for Super PAC for America (superpacusa.com) to make independent expenditures in those districts.
(NOTE: Federal law prohibits any person from being both active with the campaign and also making expenditures from another group regarding the same candidate).
In each of the races where I was involved, I loved working with the Tea Party groups, particularly TeaPartyPatriots.org. They propelled these victories with their energy and commitment.
In the races where I was directly involved with the candidates and campaigns, we won the following 28 Congressional races, all takeaways from the Democrats: (asterisk denotes districts where I personally campaigned)
Nan Hayworth, New York*
Tom Marino, Pennsylvania*
Lou Barletta, Pennsylvania
Mike Fitzpatrick, Pennsylvania
Robert Hurt, Virginia*
Scott Rigell, Virginia*
Morgan Griffith, Virginia
Mike Keown, Georgia
Austin Scott, Georgia
Sandy Adams, Florida*
Dan Webster, Florida*
David Rivera, Florida*
Steve Palazzo, Mississippi*
Alan Nunnelee, Mississippi*
Tim Griffin, Arkansas*
Rick Crawford, Arkansas*
Francisco Canseco, Texas
Steve Pearce, New Mexico*
David Harmer, California*
Scott Tipton, Colorado*
Cory Gardiner, Colorado*
Randy Hultgren, Illinois*
Todd Young, Indiana*
Sean Duffy, Wisconsin*
Jim Renacci, Ohio
Bob Gibbs, Ohio*
Bill Johnson, Ohio*
David McKinnley, West Virginia*
[...]
In addition, I also advised Super PAC (superpacusa.com) on its independent expenditures in 23 other districts. In these, I had no personal contact with the candidate or the campaigns, but through Super PAC and your generosity, we produced and ran television ads and/or made robo calls into these districts. We won eleven of these races. Without your help, we would not have been able to help elect these new House members:
Paul Gosar, Arizona
Ben Quayle, Arizona
David Schweikert, Arizona
Steve Sutherland, Florida
Raul Labrador, Idaho
Tim Walberg, Michigan
Chip Cravaack, Minnesota
Michael Grimm, NY
Richard Hanna, NY
Scott DesJarlis, Tenn
Reid Ribble, Wisconsin
That means there would, literally, be five to ten fewer House victories had you not helped our Super PAC efforts.
So, in all, we've been involved in 40 of the 65 House takeaways, either directly with the campaigns or independent of them.