By KENNETH P. VOGEL and TARINI PARTI | 11/7/14 5:11 AM EST Updated: 11/7/14 7:29 PM EST

Democrats are doubling down on their attacks against the Koch brothers.

Prompted by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Democrats spent millions of dollars spotlighting Republican ties to the billionaire conservative megadonors Charles and David Koch. But despite Republicans — and some Democrats — publicly decrying the strategy after Tuesday’s GOP wave as an ineffective waste of money, Reid told allies on election night that he planned to continue hammering the brothers, according to an operative close to him.

And big-money liberal groups ranging from the Democrats’ Senate campaign arm and House super PAC to the outfits run by billionaire Tom Steyer and conservative-turned-liberal enforcer David Brock all signaled that they intended to pursue anti-Koch spending and oppo tactics headed into the 2016 election.

Brock’s American Bridge outfit on Thursday began circulating a memo to senior Democratic congressional aides and big money groups making the case for redoubling the effort to make the Kochs into boogeymen.

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Yet continuing the anti-Koch crusade is sure to irk some Democratic politicians and consultants, who grumbled — mostly privately — that money spent on the strategy was a waste of valuable resources.

“It’s utterly ineffective. Elections have to be about voters and what candidates will do for them,” said Thomas Mills, a North Carolina-based Democratic strategist who has worked on Senate campaigns. “And this strategy is more about the candidates. It says, ‘Look at me! Help me — they are spending money against me.’ There’s no connection between that and voters.”

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The politics of personal destruction are front and center, an admitted part of their strategy. We've seen it used and work for many years. Create bogeymen and defeat them instead of addressing the issues before us with reasoned strategies. Why waste time on policy papers enunciating your stand on the issues when the winning-est strategy is to tar and feather a straw man? TM

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Yet continuing the anti-Koch crusade is sure to irk some Democratic politicians and consultants, who grumbled — mostly privately — that money spent on the strategy was a waste of valuable resources.

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That's why I hope that fruit Brock and the others keep this up.

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Not to mention it is a grossly inaccurate description of where money in politics is coming from. A strong case can be made that BOTH sides are drunk from their big money contributors. Both sides, certainly not just Republicans.
In fact the top three "Heavy Hitter" PAC donors give exclusively to the Dems!
1 ActBlue $124,142,516
2 National Education Assn $73,795,236
3 American Fedn of State, County & Municipal Employees $66,986,218