Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: National Republicans abandon the Michigan Senate race

Leading Off:

•MI-Sen: Despite the way the cycle's shaped up, the first Senate campaign committee to cry "Uncle!" is actually the NRSC. Republicans are cutting an $850,000 TV ad reservation for the final two weeks of the election in Michigan, where they'd been trying to help Terri Lynn Land. Of course the NRSC is spinning this as anything but a sign of weakness, pointing out Land's cash advantage over Democrat Gary Peters (true, thanks to her self-funding) and the fact that other outside groups are advertising here (also true, but are they really going to make up the shortfall? maybe they'll even follow suit).

Here's something that's absolutely indisputable, though:

That's a chart showing Peters' net margin over Land in all polls conducted in the last nine months or so, with the green line through the middle showing the overall trend. Anything above the red center line indicates a positive result for Democrats. The movement in Peters' direction is unmistakable, and no amount of GOP spin can undermine it.