Okay, this is interesting: The Obama campaign is now running ads responding to the Swift-Boating Obama-Ayers spot at a significantly faster pace than the original spot itself is running.
It's yet another sign that the Obama campaign is dead serious about sinking real resources into real media buys responding to such attacks, thus using rebuttal ads to saturate the local markets where the attack spots are running.
On August 26th -- the last date for which info is available -- the American Issues Project, the group behind the spot tying Obama to the former Weatherman, ran the ad 304 times in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Virginia.
On that same day, the Obama campaign aired its response ad some 550 times -- nearly twice as many times -- in those same four states.
According to Evan Tracey, who tracks national ad buys for the Campaign Media Analysis Group and supplied us with these numbers, this shows that the Obama campaign's response is overtaking the ad itself in frequency.
"If current trends continue, Obama will be drowning out those ads," Tracey says.
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/obama_campaign_overwhelming_ay.php---
From the day that ad dropped, I've been saying that they should match the ad buy, dollar for dollar, state for state. I'm pleasantly surprised to see that not only did Team O do that, they actually raised the ante and out-spent the 527.
Besides putting out the fire that the Ayers ad may have started had it gone unchecked, it also serves notice to any GOP billionaire who thinks they can buy McCain a couple of points in the polls - if they come to run smear ads, they better bring a checkbook and be ready to spend large. I'm betting a lot of these guys aren't going to want to drop a couple of million if they know that Obama's gonna match them and turn their investment into a waste of money.
Smart.
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