Even though most Americans don't know who the Koch brothers are, the Democrats are still attacking “... the GOP’s Koch addiction.”

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Koch Brothers Still Unknown to Many Americans – WSJ/NBC Poll
By Reid J. Epstein, April 30, 2014

Most Americans don’t know who the Koch brothers are, and yet they continue to be the focus of Democrats’ attacks.

Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found a full half of Americans didn’t recognize the names of Charles and David Koch. Another 20% have neutral feelings about them – leaving just 21% with negative feelings and 10% with positive opinions.

The unknown rating is the highest among political figures in the WSJ/NBC poll – four percentage points more than Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) and nearly twice as high as likely 2016 GOP presidential candidate Rand Paul (R., Ky.)

This makes sense, given that the Kansas-bred industrialists tend to be behind-the-scenes players, funding such political groups as Americans for Prosperity without putting themselves in the spotlight.

So why are Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) and his fellow Senate Democrats making the Kochs the centerpiece of their midterm efforts and not Mr. McConnell, who is hardly a sympathetic political figure himself?

Two reasons: 1) Democratic donors certainly know all about the Kochs and their political spending, and 2) You have to have somebody to run against – and many Democrats believe the Kochs are as good a bogeyman as Mr. Reid will get. There’s no Mitt Romney and his Bain Capital connections this time around, but Democrats hope the Kochs provide a suitable stand-in for what they are billing as Republicans’ allegiance to big businesses and special interests.

Just this week the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee released yet another attack on the Kochs, this time in the form of a Flipboard magazine detailing a series of stories and campaign videos that comprise what they are labeling “the GOP’s Koch addiction.”
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