I’m in Ohio, a place Romney should be furiously engaged, but there’s very, very little of his message to see.
Obama is attacking and even Rasmussen says he’s leading here now.
I’m in Nevada, a place Romney should be furiously engaged as well...and his messages are as prevalent as Obama’s. So Obama does a big dump of money in early August in Ohio (probably to try and increase his numbers in the short term), that is the normal give and take of the campaign and particularly considering how early it is that is no reason to say the election is lost. Obama is going to dump huge amounts of money in places but Romney’s campaign would be foolish to map their strategy based on what Obama is doing from moment to moment.
Would you prefer it if Romney spent all his money now and had far less remaining to counter Obama in October? That is what Obama is doing right now, a furious and most likely vain effort to buttress his numbers so it doesn’t get out of hand, given how poor his record is, hoping that he can raise enough later to keep it going. Of course, Obama hoped that the stimulus would keep things going too, and that really worked out well for him.