Hmmmmm, looks like the “carpet bombing” has the WaPo a little worried. What they are seeing is true leadership in action. Hahahaha
Seems reasonable as the campaigns are WAY too long (by years) and many don’t decide until they are in the booth.
Obama needs to spend more money trying to win Arizona... his supporter tell me it’s “in play” so he can blow his wad there instead of swing states like Florida. bwahahaha.
(Not to be confused with Barry the muslim and his allies from overseas who are ILLEGALLY contributing millions and millions.)
Typical Post. LOL
What the heck is “high risk” about airing a lot of ads?
Maybe they mean it was risky to hold off the big guns until now? But Mitt’s leading the polls and carpet-bombing with ads now has little downside, aside from overall voter fatigue with the volume of ads, But that goes for both sides.
Where were these jerkwads last month when Obama was running ads in the college football games every five minutes?
Are we seeing Shock and Awe in action here?
Candidates spending millions to get votes that have already been cast may be the obituary of this election season..
I have to say, I was wrong about Romney. This campaign stayed patient and didn’t panic. The leadership Romney has show THROUGH his campaign (since before the primaries) has been nothing but impressive. He has won me over with his actions and deeds. I doubt he is the total conservative that would be my ideal President, but we need a leader, even if I won’t agree with him on every issue.
When I was studying politics, I think the assertion was that the average voter needed to see your ad 8 times in the previous week in order to vote for you. Saturation sticks your name and sound bite into their minds.
They forgot to mention Joe Biden’s dynamic debate performance!
This was Jerry Brown’s strategy in California when he beat multi-millionaire Meg Whitman.
She basically spent $150 million of her own money over a long campaign season and Jerry waited until the last month and he won.
Romney’s strategy is to let you come, challenge him, and then deliver a vastly intensified licking toward the end, it’s how he campaigned for governor of Massachusetts, and it’s also how he’s doing it now. Frankly, I have my disagreements, but now is less about finding some ideal candidate for every issue as opposed to one who is competitive, which we frankly really need right now in this highly partisan, smear-happy atmosphere.
The time to say the Romney campaign had a high risk strategy was back in the summer, when it wasn’t very clear if Romney would be buried by Obama’s barrage of negative ads by the time October rolled around, and end up behind in the polls by double digits. Mid-October has rolled around and Romney is dead even with Obama. It’s clear that the gamble has paid off. If Romney doesn’t spend his campaign money *before* the elections, when is he going to spend it? This isn’t a high-risk strategy - it’s the sprint to the finish line during which he will find out whether his relative lack of charisma vis-a-vis Obama can be made up with campaign ads. This is the year we find out if McCain could have won if he hadn’t been outspent 3 to 1 by Obama.
I hope they add Ohio to their carpet bombing plan.
This was indeed very high risk - the debate result however makes it much, much more effective. It was not known at the time that this would be the atmosphere for this strategy to have its final phases implemented.
Weld County in Colorado registered 119,000 new voters for this election. 38% Republican and 24% Democrats. We are one of the only counties in the country that has a budget surplus, due to an all Republican county board. I’m proud to live here.
Unleash hell on Jug Ears and his mooching minions
Weld County in Colorado registered 119,000 new voters for this election. 38% Republican and 24% Democrats. We are one of the only counties in the country that has a budget surplus, due to an all Republican county board. I’m proud to live here.