McCain Camp, RNC To Spend $160 Million In Final Weeks

FoxNews.com ^ | 10/10/08 | James Rosen

[word_warrior_bob]

John McCain's campaign and the Republican National Committee plan to spend "upwards of $160 million" in the final weeks of the presidential race, according to a senior McCain adviser.

This will represent a massive counter-attack to combat Barack Obama's lopsided spending advantage to date.

The McCain adviser told FOX News that, while Obama is outspending them in all but two of 14 battleground states, "that will change over the last four weeks."

As national and battleground state polls show McCain trailing Obama consistently, McCain is urging voters not to count him out.

"In case you missed it, this is about the seventh or eighth time that pundits have said 'McCain's campaign is in trouble,'" he told Wisconsin voters Thursday. "We fooled them then and we will fool them again."

[Admin Moderator]

Watch the profanity

[word_warrior_bob]

Don’t think so, but it will be much closer than usual, as will all blue states be, any state that Bush lost by 5% or less is vulnerable.

Obama is the worst candidate in history.

[Admin Moderator]

knock off the personal attacks

[Big Giant Head]

This is the most optimistic thread I’ve seen on FR for days/weeks. Guess where my wife is spending her time?

The Hillary forums. They’re WAY more confident that D’ohBama is going down than even FReepers. She says it’s more optimistic, and they’ve been doing lots of opposition research.

[listenhillary]

If McCain followed your advice, he would be handing hammers out to the media to beat him to pulp.

It’s not the base he needs to be pulling over to our side, it is the middle. If he goes on a full fledged rant spewing venom at B.O., the middle will flee.

Let the 527’s and others do the attacking.

[LS]

All along, I've been urging people to pay attention to the initiatives and referenda that are on the ballots. We saw in 2004 in OH, this is huge. In fact, in 2006, it's entirely possible that the anti-smoking initiative cost DeWine his seat---not that he was for or against it, but that it brought out a lot of Dem voters.

So, in CA there is an anti-gay-marriage initiative that is winning 2:1. Do you think McCain will pick up a lot of those voters? I do.

[penelopesire]

Not only that...but McCain needs to go back to 2001..when the administration started sounding the clarion call about Fannie and Freddie. The republicans have been trying to rein this financial tsunami in for 8 YEARS!!

FOR 8 YEARS, THE DEMOCRATS HAVE BLOCKED REFORM!!

[puroresu]

You know, something tells me that Obama and his typical supporters would just roll their eyes and dismiss great films like Patton and The Longest Day as jingoism. That alone tells me these people are unfit to rule our great land.

[Noumenon]

That’s one thing about the Clintleone family - they harbor grudges and they never forget. That’s why they’re so damn dangerous. For now, the vendetta’s against Barry the Red.

We’ll still have to deal with them later.

[LS]

Rightly or wrongly, this has always been McCain's strategy. Too bad that Saddleback Forum wasn't this week. But in retrospect, Saddleback caused a lot of conservatives to conclude that they not only could work for McCain, they had to.

At any rate, the McCain people have said that it all comes down to the last 72 hours, and in a non-incumbent race, I think they are right.

[seekthetruth]

I think it would be great if the McCain campaign made short ads out of these four 3 to 4 minute videos! Please watch each one if you have not done so! A travesty!

McCain Ad Entro could be:

“Democrat Voters Speak Out About The Obama Campaign!”
http://www.wewillnotbesilenced2008.com/video/index.htm

[IndianPrincessOK]

it would be great if they did a 15 minute segment AFTER Obamas 30 minutes....and had Palin and McCain together debunking Obamas lies and stating our case as president. That would be watched!

[Matchett-PI]

"Obama is using his half-hour as training. Once he becomes dictator, er, I mean, president, he’ll be ready to emulate his two great models, Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, and give four-hour speeches. Come to think of it, all dictators love to give hours-long speeches. They just love to hear themselves talk - and make everybody else listen."

Here's my yard sign:

[listenhillary]

Sounds like fun at the hillary forums.

The nuts are insane this season. I’ve never seen such a crop of hickory nuts, walnuts, hazelnuts, freeper nuts.

[Norman Bates]

The McCain List.

I believe much of Obama's supposed lead in the polls is due to the artificial spending advantage he has chosen to implement while our side has chosen to hold funds in reserve. $160 million in the final 2-3 weeks is the kind of saturation coverage that will quickly take its toll on Obama and give McCain the surge he needs to cross the finish line first.

[jveritas]

Excellent.

[MinuteGal]

The fly in the ointment is the fact that all these gazillions are lining the pockets of the airwaves-and-print media nabobs.

The obscene profits from this campaign will probably keep the New York Slimes and other marxist rags in business for the time being, unfortunately.

After the election, conservatives have to get series about confronting the MSM head-on.....and workable strategeries must be formulated to destroy them and their Goebbels messagings.

That little weasel, Pinch Sulzberger, must be shaking in his boots awaiting the election result. I hope the result will put him out of his slimy publishing misery once and for all.

Leni

[pray4liberty]

I pray you are right. I’m right on the edge of giving up on this, and I don’t want to.

Don't fall for the Devil's tricks. One of his tactics is to demoralize the good and get them not to do anything (i.e. vote).

The media's campaign to shotgun Obama in the White House can backfire on them. With him "so ahead" in all the polls, some lazy citizens may decide not to bother voting since he's "going to win" anyway. As omnipresent and all-knowing as Obama is, (/sarc) even he can't make someone get out of bed and vote.

And don't forget the "bitter clinger" voters who are highly insulted that Obama thinks he's too good for their vote.

[puroresu]

I live in an “academic” neighborhood. Big, well-kept older houses on the edge of a decent-sized university. A ton of college profs live here, mostly liberals. I don’t see all that many Obama signs or bumper stickers. There were more for Gore and Kerry. I see a few bumper stickers around campus, but not as many as the past few elections for the other ‘Rats.

Of course, this is Tennessee and McCain will win easily here.

[mad_as_he$$]

"That is significant."

Only if McCain does not tell everybody it is ok to vote for the Obamanation - again.