The defeated Republican Senator from Montana, Conrad Burns, complains about the way Senate campaign funds were spent on his campaign.
Too bad, former Senator Burns. I work with the man who did the polling for your Democratic opponent and he says you lost because you were widely perceived as corrupt. Nothing else mattered as much as your corruption.
I've worked on polling in dozens of campaigns and it is a rule that most candidates never accept the negative survey information that is found. I only remember one candidate who accepted the negative responses. (The one candidate who listened to the negatives was Joe Alioto when he ran for Mayor of San Franciso and won. He heard the negatives and said "they don't even know me, but I understand how they can get those opinions.")
Certainly this former Senator from Montana didn't listen to the negative polling data.