From Sept. 30 to Oct. 6, Obama spent more than $20 million on television ads in 17 states including more than $3 million in Pennsylvania and more than $2 million each in Florida, Michigan and Ohio. McCain in that same time frame spent just $7.2 million in 15 states. Even when the Republican National Committee's independent expenditure spending in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin is factored in (a total of $5.3 million), Obama still outspent the combined GOP forces by roughly $8 million in the last week alone.
So you can keep playing defense only. That's a strategy for losers in my book, especially when facing an opponent with so much money. Meanwhile the GOP is making plays at blue states PA, MI and WI (very, very close here the past two elections), plus the purplish IA (red last election, blue the one before).
You can think whatever you like. This is not a campaign trailing by ten points in PA, nor is it a campaign trailing badly nationwide. It's a campaign playing chess against an extremely well-financed Marxist with an adoring media.
Agree with you here, completely. Except I see the McCain camp and RNC playing kids checkers....not chess. Though, Gov Palin deserves credit, she at least seems willing to engage, to fight. But the RNC seems continually plain scared and McCain two debate performances speak volumes.