Lights! Camera! Spend!
After a relatively subdued debate, the Obama and Clinton camps are launching their media campaigns in earnest in the run-up to super-Tuesday.
Obama is running a blitz of campaign ads, already running them in 20 states, starting today in 3 more and only skipping his home Illinois. Clinton has also launched a media campaign, though somewhat more modest. Obama is more in need of these ads than Clinton, whose name everyone knows. Believe it or not, there are people who are only just waking up to the campaign, and Obama isn’t as much a household name as Clinton.
Fortunately for him though, he has money to burn. His campaign made a record 32 million dollars JUST in the month of January. Most of those donations came from small-money donors, and the Obama campaign reports that they reached 250,000 individual donations by midnight yesterday. I visited the Obama site yesterday and they were at 224,000 in the morning, which means that he got 26,000 donations in one single day.
Will it be enough? Only time will tell.
I was struck by something odd in the debate last night. The intense lack of hostility towards each other and the downright offering of platitudes toward each other.
The deal is struck. The loser is the Democratic Vice President. One can only hope that Obama is the loser because the man quite simply needs 8 more years of experience. Then I will most likely do something Ive never done in my life. Willingly give a politician a few bucks to waste.
Oh, you’re talking about the campaign. From the headline, I thought this was about what happens if a Democrat wins the election.;-)
C. Stanley, yeah, when I wrote the headline I thought I’d get some smart-remark from the conservative audience to that effect
abrisaham, you might be right about them preparing to become a single ticket, but I’m not so sure. Obama’s main strength is that he doesn’t want to become a polarizing figure, his strength is unity, and that would be harmed if he became VP to a Clinton (yes, I know you don’t like Obama, don’t think he’s ready, blablabla, I’m talking about the campaign, not how you view him). On the other side, do you really see Clinton putting herself UNDER someone? I think it would kill her.
hehehe, Captcha: flowered President
Happy to oblige, then, Claudia!
I say NO WAY will they be on the same ticket. There appears to be too much personal animosity, and I think Hillary would be too concerned about him upstaging her.
There appears to be too much personal animosity, and I think Hillary would be too concerned about him upstaging her.
Precisely my point. There was too much personal animosity between them and poof they were heaping praises on each other. Bush choose someone like Dan Quayle to run with him because he wanted to emerge from the shadow of Ronald Reagan and did not want to be upstaged. However it turned out to be a disaster for his presidency.
Learning from past mistakes a strong VP is a plus not a negative. If Obama is the VP he will certainly provide that moderate tone that she needs. If Obama is the VP then Hillary will just have to wait 8 more years for the job. She has waited 35. What is another 8?
But abrisaham- I’d say that if she knows she needs a more moderate tone to balance her out, she can easily choose someone like Biden or Richardson.
Thats not the problem. Obama is too stong in this party. If we want to win were going to have to bring them together because you have to realize that the democrats are the ones who have been stirring the pot of unrest against Bush and the war. As a result the natives are restless.
1/2 of the party is for Obama and 1/2 is for Hillary. If Hillary loses most of her supporters would probably support Obama, however I think many would defect to McCain. If Hillary wins I think a Larger Percent goes to the I aint gonna vote category and Id rather die then vote for McCain.
Either way its a disaster for the Democrats once again. I said before we are the only party that can figure out how to blow a 100 point half time lead consistently.