When will our $ advantage translate into more, tougher, better ads?

[DuaneBidoux]

Even down here in Texas where McCain will obviously be the winner I see more ads for McCain than Obama. I've seen ads for McCain on CNN during the convention.

I expect this money advantage to translate into something tangible and will begin to wonder where my money is going if I don't see that happening.

[Alter Ego]

1. When McCain officially becomes the GOP nominee the money advantage

will be VERY apparent.

[Egnever]

3. Sorry not going to happen

[Egnever]

2. we dont have a money advantage

dont fool yourself

[No Elephants]

4. You are not in a battleground state.

[DuaneBidoux]

7. Exactly, but then why am I getting McCain ads? My impression is the McCain ads are national.

[scheming daemons]

8. Why spend extra to make them national? No use playing them in solid blue states...

If McCain is running ads in Texas, he's either very worried or very stupid.

[DuaneBidoux]

10. I guess I'm trying to figure out something that is unknowable or completely illogical

from any perspective.

[endthewar]

15. McCain has to spend all of his primary money before his Convention ends

He has nothing better to spend it on, so he's just buying national ads now.

[endthewar]

13. He's even playing ads in Massachusetts

Trust me, no way is MA going red. I would fear for someone's safety if they even had a McCain bumper sticker out here in Boston.

[endthewar]

12. McCain has to burn through his primary money

and has no better place to spend it so he's just buying ads on a national basis.

[trudyco]

5. I'm worried too, but Hil and Kerry speech are encouraging -nt

[truedelphi]

6. Sadly the prediction made in the must read Rolling Stone article

About how the Presidential candidates ALWAYS listen to the overpaid schmucks that call themselves
"political consultants" is coming all too true.

Rather than continuing to be who he is, Obama is slowly adapting himself to the right.

And why? He is paying (and listening to) the same teams of losers that have helped the Dems snatch defeat from the jaws of victory so many times before.

See the entire article here:
http://tinyurl.com/6nuaoh

[DuaneBidoux]

9. Perhaps. But apparently the "overpaid schmucks " on the 'Puke side are worth it.

[endthewar]

11. Primary trust fund vs. general election stipend

McCain is outspending Obama in August because he has to burn through his primary funds. Once he is on his general election stipend, the money advantage will shift. The McCain campaign will probably counter by releasing ads everyday, making a small buy, sending them to the news stations, then hoping that they get as much free play as possible.

P.S. Don't listen to Egnever

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

14. The one area where the Clinton campaign was better was ads.

I don't find the Obama ads very effective, which is part of why his big spending advantage in the late primaries didn't translate into as many votes as the $$$ spent should have.

Some Obama ads are too local in tone... like really good governor's race ads. Others are like feel-good corporate identity ads, like for GE or Archer-Daniels Midland. (The ones with the moving boxes of images of tech industry and such.)

So if someone wanted to reach out to the old Clinton ad folks, I would see that as a good thing.

And the Thomasons absolutely rule when it comes to political video. (Compare Hillary's convention video intro to Biden's... like night and day. The Barack and Michelle video on Monday was better than the Biden one because it was a close imitation of the Thomason's 1992 convention video, which is still the best ever... even better than Reagan's 1984 Morning in America video. They're really good.)

[PolNewf]

16. Obama is just keeping up with McCain + RNC

and McCain is dumping all his money now before he takes public financing.