Posted on 10/31/2010 4:40:52 PM PDT by smoothsailing
By Christina Bellantoni
Roll Call Staff
Oct. 31, 2010, 7:03 p.m.
WILMINGTON, Del. — Christine O’Donnell’s GOP Senate campaign is buying three 30-minute television ads for the final stretch, she announced Sunday at a Tea Party Express rally, where she insisted that the race is closer than it seems.
She has purchased the three ads, to air Sunday night and at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Monday, with the financial help of the tea party movement to showcase stories she hears on the campaign trail. “Tell everyone to tune in,” she said.
Such long TV segments won’t be cheap, but they could pack a punch for a campaign that has consistently lagged the Democratic candidate by double digits in the polls. Barack Obama successfully used the tactic to make his closing argument in his 2008 presidential campaign.
O’Donnell argued Sunday that she’s winning first-time voters who aren’t included in polls and that Democrats are worried, pointing to Vice President Joseph Biden’s scheduled appearance at a rally Monday for her Democratic rival, Chris Coons, as evidence.
“They wouldn’t spend the day before Election Day in Delaware if they didn’t know it was tight,” O’Donnell said as about 1,000 conservatives from Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania cheered along the Christina River waterfront.
O’Donnell accused the media of attacking conservative candidates and said liberals are afraid “something special” is happening in Delaware.
“We’re in it to win it,” she said, pointing out that political watchers underestimated her before she walloped Rep. Mike Castle in the GOP Senate primary last month. But Coons is favored to win Tuesday’s election, thanks to a more moderate general electorate than the Republican primary voters and some of O’Donnell’s stumbles along the way.
In a testament to the race’s national stakes, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s name was mentioned as often as O’Donnell’s during Sunday’s rally, the 28th stop on a bus tour that began in Reno, Nev. The Tea Party Express showed a new attack ad against the Nevada Democrat, and organizers said he is their “No. 1 target.” The group asked the crowd to buy a $20 commemorative booklet to help fund ads supporting Reid’s opponent, Sharron Angle, and fellow GOP candidates Joe Miller in Alaska and Marco Rubio in Florida.
Rally attendees said they didn’t care that O’Donnell is highly unlikely to win, and many said they hoped the event would help boost turnout for GOP House candidate Glen Urquhart. “The first vote I will cast is to fire” Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Urquhart said from the rally’s stage.
Brenda Brown, of Laurel, said the polls don’t discourage her. “I’m going to vote my conscience and my principles,” she said.
Organizers asked the crowd to knock on doors and volunteer at phone banks during the final 48 hours until the election, and they warned that Democrats “will lie, cheat, steal and do everything they can to win.”
“On Tuesday, we’re going to take out the trash,” Amy Kremer of the Tea Party Express said to applause.
do you know what channel?
Excellent news. Hopefully it will be enough to overcome the RATS in the state, the media and the establishment Republicans.
30 minute spots are quite long aren’t they. I wouldn’t tune in to watch one.
I just hope they’re harder than the stuff she’s put out so far. She needs to push issues, and why it’s crucial she win to end Dem control of the Senate. No more touchy feely personality-based stuff, show that you’re a serious candidate in a serious time.
I hope she is buying TV time on the Philadelphia stations that serve Delaware.
I tend to agree, but they said it helped the commie usurper. Throw all ya got at ‘em and then PRAY!!! I can’t believe delaware would elect a bearded marxist!!!! Go Christine!!!
I don’t know.
I wish her ad was running nationwide. I’m stuck in California and would like to watch her ad on my good TV instead of hunting around to stream it on my laptop.
Best of luck to you, COD!!! I hope you win!
I watched Reagan’s
Great stuff.
She’s exactly right...why would Biden and Obama waste time there if the Dems have it sewed up?
Good news! She can beat him on the issues.
GO CHRISTINE!!
Time to swat the RatCoons with your brooms!
Prayers for Christine that she wins Tuesday and starts the road toward moral as well as fiscal recovery of this once great nation.
This seems very odd to me.
I suspect those who would watch are primarily those who are planning to vote for her anyway. Seems unlikely spending this amount of money will change anybody’s mind.
OTOH, she’s got to spend all that money she took in on something, which isn’t easy in a tiny market like DE.
“30 minute spots are quite long aren’t they. I wouldn’t tune in to watch one.”
No. Sort of the video version of the magnum opus, wall of text posts that are intended to win the argument once and for all. People tune out, usually. Still, I hope she wins.
Very true.
Amen!
Well if it works, great.
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