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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-21-08 06:24 PM
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NY Times sez Obama's budget for rest of year "could exceed $300 million." Best get to work, Johnny.
From Sunday's NY Times. Thought I would post it here instead of Breaking or Articles. Cool, but don't underestimate the Repukes.

June 22, 2008
Obama Plans National Push on Ads and Turnout

Senator Barack Obama is drawing up plans for extensive advertising and voter-turnout drives across the nation, hoping to capitalize on his expected fund-raising advantage over Senator John McCain to force Republicans to compete in states they have not had to defend in decades. . .

. . . He is also dispatching paid staff members to all states, an unusual move by the standards of modern presidential campaigns where the fight is often contained to contested territories.

Mr. Obama’s aides and advisers said they did not believe he necessarily had a serious chance of winning in many of the traditionally Republican states, but that he could at least draw Mr. McCain into spending time and money there while swelling Democratic enrollment and supporting other Democrats on the ballot. . .

. . . Mr. McCain also will have considerable help from the Republican National Committee, which has far outpaced the Democratic Party in fund-raising and still holds the vaunted voter identification and turnout machinery that President Bush’s campaign built with his chief strategist, Karl Rove, and the former Republican chairman, Ken Mehlman. . . .

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/us/politics/22obama.html?hp

Don't get complacent. We cannot let anything prevent us from ending the Era of Bush.

And introducing the Era of Obama.



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elfin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-21-08 06:41 PM
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1. Money does not necessarily determine the outcome - witness
the "bankrupt" McCain winning the presumptive nomination-against Romney et al - albeit with help from Cindy's bankroll.

He still has MSM attraction to his Doubletalk Express and creds built from the same in previous campaigns.

He LIKES being portrayed as an underdog - and no doubt the press will bend over to accommodate this view and give him extra non-judgmental air time to make this an exciting contest for the ratings.

Happier than ever that Obama spurned the rigged public moneys - he will need quadruple McCain's -- just hope he makes better use of our money than on that strange seal.


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woolldog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-21-08 06:46 PM
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2. I question these projections.
He barely outraised McCain in May.
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-21-08 06:51 PM
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3. That was one month. And everybody was exhausted from the end of the primaries. Wait for June.
He is going to absolutely blow McCain out of the water this month.
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