Posted on 09/07/2012 1:53:59 PM PDT by TonyInOhio
He’s in a money crunch:
Todd Akin’s TV ads are, reportedly, being yanked from stations across the state because his campaign isn’t paying the bills. KOMU-TV in Columbia says it received half of the payment for an ad buy, and when it didn’t get the other half, it cancelled the rest of the ads. The station says its confirmed that other stations from St. Louis to Kansas City have been put in the same position.
McCaskill, meanwhile, is running positive ads about how moderate she is. I imagine the tone of the race will change markedly if Akin stays in past the deadline for him to get out.
Don't really understand what you are getting at. Akin winning causing other Rep Senate candidates to lose. I don't get the connection. Maybe you can expand on how this is tied together.
Would that include the murder threat joke that issued forth from Karl Rove's mouth??? I guess then that all the money that Rove's Crossroads is giving to candidates across the country is now tainting those candidates and their campaigns as well.
Missouri is clean out of those this election cycle.
It's Akin or McCasket -- take your pick.
Without the funds for media buys, Aiken will have to organize the grass roots to turn out their voters on Nov. 6. It probably won’t be enough, for MO is more liberal than people think.
I am a lifetime Missouri resident (70 years). I consider myself somewhat more knowledgeable than those from other states pertaining to how MoPeople think. Clair McCaskill not only gave Obama the 60th vote that put Obamacare over the line but sold herself out to everything else he wanted. She thinks we have forgotten but we haven't. Missouri will vote (against) McCaskill by voting for Akin. They would vote for the local town dog catcher if he were running against her. I predict a landslide victory for Romney and Akin will ride in on his coat tails. Missouri will come through for this country.
If Karl Rove were a Democrat, which from your point of view he may as well be, yes. To joke about killing a rival politician would be an example of what not to say, because it might draw out Republican voters to vote.
If you look elsewhere, they were putting the number at $2 million, and that was about a month ago.
Rove’s PAC was Akin’s biggest backer until Akin started mouthing of. Akin is a 100% Rove/Huckabee man.
If "conservative Akin-haters force him to abandon his campaign, his successor will most likely be some hack or a tired retread like John Danforth.
And if you look at what they spent the money on, it was advertising. They spent similar amounts on the other two candidates. All she could hit him for was being too conservative. I’ve read the rest of that article and the one they quote and found the argument weak. Since the same amount was spent on each of the three, does that mean she wanted them all to win? She hit each with one of the recent Democrat formulae they use here in Tennessee as well. None of the three tend to hurt candidates down here.
Sept 25
Let me give you an example of how a lack of discipline can cost seats. In Canada, our media is just as hostile to the Conservatives as your media is to the Republicans. They are always looking for a careless word or action that they can broadcast as far as the story has legs, for the explicit purpose of hurting Conservatives.
In 2001, we had a BC politician in some backwater town campaigning and some small paper reporter asked the Conservative politician a hypothetical question as to what he would do, if some customer of his business were to object to an employee of his who happened to be homosexual. The politician responded that, if the customer came in, he’d send the employee to the back of the store to do some work that needed doing until the customer was gone.
That comment, as well-intentioned as it was because the politician was saying that he wouldn’t have fired the homosexual and that he was trying to find the best way to also keep his customers. So, despite the fact that the it was a very small town and the politician was interviewed by a very local reporter, it managed to become the lead story the media played from sea to shining sea and it knocked the Conservatives off their message for a few of weeks and basically every Conservative running had to deal with a story that they shouldn’t have had to deal with.
When you’re trying to win a seat, where the difference could be just a few percentage points, being disciplined and staying on message is vital. In national elections, one’s acts of stupidity don’t just cost a person their seat, it can also cost your fellow politicians their seats.
I’m amazed at the all the rabid Freepers that will shoot themselves in the foot to demonize the Candidate running against a commie slug! Jeez, idiocy like this reminds me how a couple dumbazz’ like Obama and Biden got elected!
What makes you think a RINO would take his place? Is Sarah Steele a RINO? I have suggested several times that he make a deal to withdraw if he could name his replacement. That would be a win-win. But he won’t do that because, despite what he says, it is about him.
Bad form NOOBIE. You joined 8/4/12, your advice regarding Akin is suspect and unwelcome!
Todd Akin is a great Representative, and will make a great Senator.
I have donated to his campaign and will continue to do so.
I, and many good conservatives, are standing with him.
Show me where it says in that article that Akin took some or all or any money from the Democrats???
Show me where it says that most of his funding came from Dems???
Both your posts here are still lies unless you want to take them back:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2928062/posts?page=33#32
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2928062/posts?page=33#33
LOL. Yeah right, doofus. I'm a "troll" whose been on FR ten years longer than you. I don't drink any Kool Aid, and always support the conservative. But money is money, and he has NONE. If Akin had dropped out two weeks ago, the new candidate would already be up by 10. But go tell Huckabee to fund him, since Huck is the sole reason Akin has stayed in this long.
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