随着参议院选情向多个共和党传统优势州蔓延，民主党人担心资金供应不足，难以将这些州真正变成竞争激烈的战场。
As the Senate map pushes into deep-red states, Democrats worry their money won’t reach far enough to make some of them legitimate battlegrounds.
目前，众多位于共和党势力强大的州的民主党人士纷纷呼吁提供更多资金，以争取那些原本看似难以胜选的参议院席位。民调显示，从堪萨斯州到佛罗里达州，再到南卡罗来纳州和密西西比州，民主党在这些长期被视为难以攻克的州都具备竞争力，这也促使外部政治团体在选举后期大幅增加投入。民主党的主要竞选组织也已经开始在德克萨斯州开展活动——这个州此前并未被视作重点争夺对象，如今却变得极具竞争力。
Democrats’ eyes may be bigger than their wallets. Democrats across a slate of deep-red states are clamoring for more cash to fight for Senate seats that suddenly seem within reach, with polling showing them competitive across a swath of normally impregnable territory from Kansas to Florida and South Carolina to Mississippi prompting a sudden bump in late-stage spending from outside groups. The party’s main campaign groups have already begun spending in Texas, another state they once downplayed that’s come seriously into play.
然而，这些组织同时表示，现有资金难以兼顾核心竞争州的防守需求以及对其他地区的投入，这使得民主党在中期选举的最后阶段面临诸多艰难抉择。
But those same groups say they don’t have enough cash to protect the core battleground and also make significant investments beyond it — setting up Democrats for a series of difficult choices in the closing weeks of the midterms.
“民调结果非常明确：只要我们能有效传达信息，就一定能获胜。而且密西西比州的广告成本也并不高昂，”密西西比州民主党参议院候选人斯科特·科洛姆说道，“长期以来，密西西比州一直被忽视，如今情况终于有所改变。”
“It’s very clear in the polling: If we get our message out, we’re going to win. We’re also not an expensive state to advertise in,” said Scott Colom, the Mississippi Democratic Senate nominee. “When it comes to Mississippi, we’ve been ignored for far too long.”