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.
However, it does provide 30 minutes of opportunity to put her lovely face in front of channel surfers several times. And just maybe they will tune in for long enough to hear something they like.
I probably did too. It was so long ago he might have been able to buy time on all 3 networks at once.
I like this lady - she has true grit.
There are very few pictures of her. The press cannot allow comparison contrasts. Many Republican women are treated this way. They look better than their opponents, nowhere more so than in Delaware.
Thanks. I appreciate your perceptiveness.
According to the Castle supporters on FR, it is because Del. is a sure win-yea right!
If there are any undecided voters out there who aren’t 100% sure about Christine, and yet are at least thinking about voting, I can imagine that many of them would want to hear 30 minutes of Christine’s positions, to help them make up their mind. I would imagine that Coons strongest supporters would not watch. I personally would watch it every time it was on, if I was at the TV. But I like looking at Christine as much as I can.
..30 minutes of a last chance to tell the peeps of delaware...do you want higher taxes?..do you want a marxist representing you?..do you want cap and tax?..do you want utility costs to skyrocket?.. do you want the death tax?..do you want a moocher country?..do you want an obama clone?... your choice.
It’s the day before the election. Undecided voters who are serious about getting more information about the candidates will watch.
People who a certain about Coons won’t watch. But anyone who isn’t certain is very likely to watch. And of course a lot of Christine supporters would watch.
More video-Tammy Bruce speaks at Tea Party Express Rally-Wilmington, Delaware-10/31/2010
There is also the potential for her message to be truly put forward thoroughly and without interruption, and for direct listeners to spread the message. She has done very well, in a deep blue state, running against Reid’s pet who is supported by Obama, all while the GOP institutional dagger is quivering in her back.
She has done very well indeed.
I think its cable channel 28.
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