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Report of Obama advertising in FL and other states where McCain is not
While it was reported on TPM a couple weeks ago that the McCain campaign had perhaps stolen the march on Obama with more TV ads in Missouri, this Miami Herald story by Beth Reinhard suggests it may be the other way 'round in Florida, and other key, newly swinging, states:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/campaign-2008/story/623959.html
"For those still wondering whether Democrat Barack Obama will battle for
Florida, consider this: He has spent more money on advertising in the
state than in any other over the past two months, for a total of $5
million.
Republican John McCain's advertising budget in Florida so far: $0.
. . .
His campaign on the air and the ground should quash speculation
about whether he will give short shrift to a costly state that voted
Republican in five of the last seven presidential elections.
'Barack
Obama is committed to the state of Florida, and we continue to open
offices statewide as we assemble the largest campaign team Florida has
ever seen,' Florida state director Steve Schale said this week.
has run 7,000 ads on network television in the state, while Florida
voters can see McCain ads only on cable. Obama is also on the air
exclusively in Georgia, North Carolina, Indiana, Montana and Alaska.
'It is certainly worth noting that Obama is up in these red states and
has the airways all to himself,' said Ken Goldstein, director of the
Wisconsin Advertising Project, which analyzed data compiled by TNS
Media Intelligence/CMAG. ``That said, we won't really know if he's
expanding the playing field until September.'"
I don't know about Georgia, but it does seem plausible that NC, IN, MT, and even AK could be in play come November.
Now, let's see the Obama campaign get even more creative with their advertising, including along the lines suggested in yesterday's fine post by TPMCAFE contributor Theda Skocpol. While they could do ads on the economy, as she suggested, with "real" characters talking breakbasket issues around the proverbial kitchen table, I would really like to see an ad hitting McCain for his failure to support improving veterans' health benefits, and for refusing to support the new GI Bill. This has been suggested by North Dakota national radio talker Ed Schultz.
That would have at least three salutary affects: 1) show voters that McCain, the vaunted advocate of American's defense has feet of clay; 2) probably get under his thin skin, making his hair-trigger temper shoot off like a roman candle; and 3) also enrage his staff.
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