Posted on 10/19/2008 11:38:32 PM PDT by Chet 99
Obama set to visit Madison this Thursday By: Megan Orear /The Daily Cardinal - October 20, 2008
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is scheduled to visit Madison Thursday, though the event comes as a surprise as he currently is leading Republican opponent John McCain in the state of Wisconsin.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will stop at a rally in Madison Thursday with less than two weeks until Election Day, his campaign announced Friday.
The event will be held at 11 a.m. at the Capitol Square where Main Street intersects Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Phil Walzak, communications director for Obama’s campaign in Wisconsin, said Obama is visiting because the race in Wisconsin is still competitive.
“Wisconsin remains a very important swing state, it’s a very close election with so much at stake,” Walzak said.
According to Walzak, Obama’s visit will focus on the contrast between his economic plan and that of Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
“I think it’s interesting that he’s coming to Madison considering it’s already so liberal; it doesn’t really seem like a big battleground area to visit,” said UW-Madison senior Katie Nix, state chair of Students for McCain.
According to Pollster.com, a website that follows polling trends, Wisconsin polls over the past month collectively show Obama leading by an average of about 11 points.
Nix said although the presidential race in Wisconsin is not very close in the polls, it has always been close historically and Obama is likely trying to secure his base by visiting Thursday.
Claire Rydell, chair of UW-Madison College Democrats, said the event will provide an “extra boost of energy” for Obama’s campaign going into the final election days.
This will be Obama’s first Madison visit since he spoke on campus in February, an event that filled the Kohl Center beyond capacity.
“I hope that this will be the final push that students need to get excited and mobilize for Election Day,” said Ami ElShareif, chair of UW-Madison Students for Obama.
The McCain website finally revealed his Oct. 22 schedule: NH and OH (the latter with Sarah).
The TIPP stuff was very interesting. And I’m telling ya, the same thing is going to happen this year. Like Gore in 2000, McCain is a bit soft with voters who voted Bush four years ago (especially Independent but right-leaning voters, mostly white older voters), while Obama is already maxed out with his demographic groups.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010203001500/tipponline.com/elect/other/trends.htm
McCain has all but quit doing tv advertising since some time last week.
That is completely false. As has been pointed out countless times. The RNC stopped WI ads. McCain is still running them through 26 Oct. And his visit to Madison should give pause to any thoughtful observer.
In my last sentence in the above post, his = Obama’s.
This is also completely false.
gotta agree ... no way would Obama be in Madison at this stage of the campaign if he were as comfortable as polls would have us believe.
So for many on Free Republic $12 million in one week equals no advertising. Mmmmm hmmmm.
I live in Wisconsin...I’m just relating what I’m seeing or not seeing as is the case.
...McCain's campaign has notified Wisconsin stations that it planned to continue to buy air time through Oct. 26...
Exactly! $12M is a lot and the other is overkill!
In my opinion, Obama is advertising way too much. It’s annoying. And I’m not annoyed just because I don’t support Obama. There is such a thing as the law of diminished returns, and such a thing as hearing the same damn thing so many times in a row that you tune out.
What’s that saying about putting lipstick on a pig? :-)
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