Posted on 09/06/2012 12:24:41 PM PDT by HenryArmitage
CLEVELAND — If you switched on a television in northern Ohio this week, chances are you saw an ad for President Obama’s reelection campaign. Or two. Or three. Over and over again.
Mitt Romney? Nothing.
Obama’s Republican challenger has spent much of the summer racing around the country gathering campaign donations to pay for advertising. And the legal restraints that kept him from spending money raised for the general election were lifted a week ago, when the party officially nominated him for president.
Yet for reasons that his advisors declined to discuss, Romney has ceded the advertising airwaves to Obama over the last week in Ohio and other battleground states...
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In my opinion (hope) Romney campaign are waiting until the last moment to reveal their campaign strategy. They couldn't do so until AFTER the DNC convention. 1. so the Dems can't use it against us 2. They may want to include things that happen AT the DNC convention. If that part is correct, WOW, did they get new ammo or what?
This, in my opinion, includes which and how many states they are targeting. Time will tell, but it should become clear in a few days after the euphoria from the DNC convention wears off.
Romney has a ton of $$ and will spend is wisely unlike Obama.
Why blow an ad budget when you know you’ll have better material to work with later, when it will be more effective. This deal in Charlotte is producing a bevy of low hanging, ripe, throwing tomatos.
Spot on.. they haven`t given up at all. Watch for the biggest cannons to commence firing next week.
We`re going to see GOP firepower unleashed like we`ve never before seen. And 0bama knows it; thus that 50-minute dog-and-pony show by Clinton last night.
Why interrupt a freak show like the DNC convention? The TV coverage of the convention is like a NatGeo special on the weird, poisonous, toothy fish they find living near the wreck of the Titanic. My liberal Jewish family who voted for Obama in 2008 now says they think he’s an anti-Semitic, communist *sshole (yes, we did build our businesses). Beyond that, I will be very surprised if Romney and superpac ads doesn’t disembowel Obama in the next two months.
I was working at the campaign office when word came down that McCain was abandoning Michigan. No sicker feeling in the gut. Today there have been similar stories about Mi, Pa, and Oh. This is psyop high grade b.s. They wish. Michigan voters - Reagan democrats - are sick of how dishonest and incompetent this jackarse has been. No one I know other than hard line unioneers or gov dependants want four more years of this mess.
Romney knows exactly what he's doing.
Well, I live in Cincinnati which is very different from the cesspool that is Cleveland but on my street I count 6 Romney yard signs and 2 religious freedom yard signs. (Including in the yard of my FDR democrat union neighbor) and i have yet to see a single Odogeater sign anywhere.
Ohio has 30+ days of early voting. Waiting to run ads extremely close to traditional Election Day is the old way of doing things (although many campaigns have yet to grasp this fact).
They are going to carpet bomb obama starting tomorrow.
Right on! This may be the first campaign that shows a profit! ;-)
Methinks Axelrod’s crew sent a reporter to try to find out Romney’s impending ad buys.
Romney’s campaign doesn’t seem to have obliged them.
James Rosen of Fox news is reporting they are going to start carpet bombing Obama tomorrow.. they even made it known that they don’t care about the war language they are using.. Actually, I think they compared it the daisy cutters as used in Iraq.
I think this is reason Obama is panicking.. Romeny hasn’t spent much money yet and he is within the margin of error in all of these battle ground states.. He is going to start carpet bombing(romeny campaings words) starting tomorrw.
Stay tuned...
Ditto!
I hope they are not planning to do the 73 hour get out the vote crap again like they did 4 years ago.
They seem to forget that there is early voting now and this 72 hour get out the vote is not for today.
If they do this then they really are stupid
The fix is in. Romney’s prize is the nomination, NOT the Prsidency. He has no intention of winning.
I at least thought he’d wait and make a fatal mistake in the debates, but I see he is making sure that he doesn’t win.
just said the same
The oldway of doing things has gone and are out of date, the crap of getting out the vote in the last 72 hours doe snot work today and if the GOP does this like they did in 2008 then we will lose.
We have early voting now, we have absentee which will contain massive fraud and the GOP had better get a grip of this and get out the vote much earlier than 4 years ago.
I’m still stunned that there are some who still think the old way of 72 hours before election day will work.
Also early voting needs to go, why it is there os for the the left to vote often and early in different states
In battle, nervous new recruits just fire their guns wildly in every direction. Very seasoned veterans make each shot count. “One shot, one kill”
Romney and team are seasoned.
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