Analyst: No Kerry ads means he's conceding Mo.

[pstokely]

http://www.darnews.com/articles/2004/09/29/news/news5.txt

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The fact that the Democratic National Committee is no longer airing TV ads in Missouri suggests that Sen. John Kerry is ceding the state to President Bush, an advertising analyst told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Kerry ended his own ads in the state two months ago, and the DNC's last TV ad in Missouri aired Friday, the same day that regional Democratic operatives were declaring that the national party remained financially committed to running ads in the state.

Independent polls have generally shown Bush with a growing lead over Kerry in Missouri.

"My guess is that they have chosen to 'cut and run,"' said Evan Tracey, head of TNSMI/Campaign Media Analysis Group, a nonpartisan national ad-tracking firm whose clients include the Post-Dispatch.

[lancdem]

1. If the race gets closer there Kerry can change his mind

I think the red states they're trageting now are NH, OH, FL, NV and CO.

[camaro69]

2. What is the demographic make up

of Missouri? Why is Kerry pulling out. He could win this state....