May 14, 2008
McCain Ad Watch: Another Small Buy
I reported yesterday that John McCain's OR ad buy turned out to be peanuts, just $1,310. Today I learned that his WI buy -- Green Bay focused -- is equally small, about $2,180, according to sources.
So the strategy ...
1. To make it look like McCain is playing early in Dem-leaning states.
2. To piggyback, as best he can, on the Dem primary contest and the voter interest its generated.
3. To make appeals based on moderate matters, such as the environment, as he did in OR -- an effort to remind voters of his maverick, moderate reputation, even as Barack Obama is promising that McCain would provide a third term of George Bush's policies.
(JENNIFER SKALKA)
Posted at 04:31 PM
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McCain made it onto Seattle TV (public channel). He held a mini-forum with the president of REI, some ex-governor, some Eastern Washington grower pushing 'micro-irrigation', etc.
At first it sounded like he knew what he was talking about, but essentially he would use a talking point solution in response to each comment. The grower wanted to ship to China, so McCain concluded that he was interested in free trade...the guy didn't exactly say yes.
And of course, to conclude everything, he brought it all back to National Security, Oil independence, Oil money getting into the hands of terrorists, borrowing from China.
tomj | 05.15.08 02:20 AM
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Clinton takes Indiana by a ‘razor’ and Obama wins North Carolina by a huge margin. Nevertheless, Kentucky, Montana and West Virginia are still to come.
The Democratic race for nomination is still very much alive – and most likely to be decided by superdelegates
If you’re tired of waiting around for those super delegates to make a decision already, go to LobbyDelegates.com and push them to support Clinton or Obama
If you haven't done so yet, please write a message to each of your state's superdelegates at http://www.lobbydelegates.com
Obama Supporters:
Sending a note to current Obama supporters lets them know it's appreciated, sending a note to current Clinton supporters can hopefully sway them to change their vote to Obama, and sending a note to the uncommitted folks will hopefully sway them to vote for Obama. It's that easy...
Clinton Supporters too …. !
It takes a moment, but what's a few minutes now worth to get Clinton in office?! Those are really worth !
Sending a note to current Clinton supporters lets them know it's appreciated, sending a note to current Obama supporters can hopefully sway them to change their vote to Clinton, and sending a note to the uncommitted folks will hopefully sway them to vote for Clinton. It's that easy...
feeba | 05.15.08 06:15 AM
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