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Romney cedes Ohio TV airwaves to Obama (at least for now)
LA Times ^ | September 6, 2012 | Michael Finnegan

Posted on 09/06/2012 12:24:41 PM PDT by HenryArmitage

CLEVELAND — If you switched on a television in northern Ohio this week, chances are you saw an ad for President Obama’s reelection campaign. Or two. Or three. Over and over again.

Mitt Romney? Nothing.

Obama’s Republican challenger has spent much of the summer racing around the country gathering campaign donations to pay for advertising. And the legal restraints that kept him from spending money raised for the general election were lifted a week ago, when the party officially nominated him for president.

Yet for reasons that his advisors declined to discuss, Romney has ceded the advertising airwaves to Obama over the last week in Ohio and other battleground states...

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: ads; obamaohio; ohio; ohioswingstate; romney; romneyads; romneyohio; swingstate; swingstates
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To: TMA62
That add is awesome!
61 posted on 09/06/2012 7:03:21 PM PDT by painter (Rebuild The America We love!)
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To: jaguar21

Wisconsin, Michigan, and PA not being contested? I hope that is wrong.


62 posted on 09/06/2012 7:56:09 PM PDT by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
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To: apillar

“He is planning to pour his war chest into the largest “ground game”, “get out the vote” program in history.”

This is the heart and soul of the election process. Not glamorous, but the ground game is where an election is won or lost.


63 posted on 09/07/2012 4:30:15 AM PDT by WILLIALAL
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To: tomkat

Anybody familiar with horse racing or cross country racing knows you sprint at the end, not the middle.


64 posted on 09/07/2012 6:46:57 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: WILLIALAL
With large numbers of people just giving up looking for work under this Administration....

I wonder how many unemployed people will be helping get out the vote for Romney in this cycle too......

65 posted on 09/07/2012 6:49:49 AM PDT by thingumbob (I'm a bitter clinger...I dare you to take my gun)
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To: Perdogg

unless it is all in person appearances.

air time is nothing to hand shaking.


66 posted on 09/07/2012 8:01:11 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: gdani

all my circle has been flooded with democrat candidate emails asking for this or that contribution for a money drop.

You also have these issue emails flooding out the mail boxes and text message political ads in full swing.

Don’t forget absentee ballots.


67 posted on 09/07/2012 8:18:05 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: SubMareener

Romney is coming out full blast today!


68 posted on 09/07/2012 9:44:19 AM PDT by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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