Battleground States
Fox News is reporting that the Obama Campaign has ceased advertising in seven key battleground states, which may be sign they are seeing signs in their polling that they cannot take those states away from John McCain. Obama had once boasted of a "50-state Strategy," believing he could win anywhere in the nation:
Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has put the brakes on ads that were running in seven states carried by the GOP in the 2004 presidential election, FOX News has learned.
Of the seven states — including Alaska, Georgia, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota — Florida and Virginia are considered key battlegrounds this year. Obama’s decision to stop advertising in those states is raising eyebrows.
Aides to Obama told FOX News that the changes are related to the convention next week. They wouldn’t discuss the specifics of their ad strategy, but the Obama campaign insists that it has not pulled out of those states permanently, calling this a temporary suspension.
When Obama’s campaign took over the Democratic Party earlier this year, it embraced Howard Dean’s 50-state strategy, which is aimed at courting Democrats nationwide. The strategy has generated controversy, though, because many Democrats say it wastes money in states where they have no chance of winning.
»
- brianinmo's blog
- Login or register to post comments
John McCain is deploying staff to the battleground states that will decide the election. He is on the air with ads in 10 of those states:
With his Democratic foe now certain, Republican John McCain is deploying dozens of staffers into battleground states, boasting of improved fundraising and expanding his advertising into some of the most competitive terrain of the general election.
"I'm running for president to keep the country I love safe," the Arizona senator says in a new commercial unveiled Friday. The ad was the start of what the campaign said would be a sustained effort to spread McCain's message in Electoral College targets between now and the fall.
As Barack Obama sewed up the Democratic nomination this week, McCain's team plunged into the general election. The Republican made his opening argument for the next phase of the presidential campaign in a speech Tuesday in which he tried to distance himself from the unpopular President Bush while arguing the Obama offers change that would imperil the country.
At the same time, the campaign made several moves over the past few days as it gears up to face Obama and enthusiastic Democrats in a treacherous political environment for Republicans.
Organizationally, McCain's 10 regional campaign managers were in place across the country — and building up their staffs — as of Sunday and the Republican National Committee named nine field directors a day later. By the end of the month, the McCain-RNC political operation plans to be running in 17 states, with 76 "Victory Centers," 94 regional and state campaign staffers and 145 RNC staffers.
Overall, campaign advisers say the joint political team will number some 500 people. They are dismissing the grumbling of some Republicans that perhaps the campaign has been too slow to increase its organization and, perhaps, squandered its three-month head start while the Democratic primary continued. McCain wrapped up the GOP nomination in March. read more »
»
- brianinmo's blog
- Login or register to post comments
