One of my guys looks at this chart and a few other DCCC buys, along with a rumor that the committee is reserving $2 million in advertising space in the Boston market for either New Hampshire seat or the open-seat race in Massachusetts’s 10th district, and concludes, “By my count, $12 million of the $48 million the Democrats have indicated they’re using to reserve ad space is in the media markets of Philadephia, New York state, California, Boston, and Chicago . . . This buy is recognition that they are in full retreat.”
As a head fake, it wouldn’t even make sense.
In the Midwest they're skipping Detroit, Mpls-St. Paul, Milwaukee (the cities are all Dem strongholds, but they have suburbs that could be in play) and instead focusing on places like Wausau, La Crosse and Duluth (somewhat tougher territory for Dems I would think.) Not sure that fits a "retreat" pattern -- or do the Dems think they have the upper midwest sewn up or something? Though they are spending very small amounts, even if those aren't particularly big states.
But for Columbus and Cleveland, $2 mil each, that's a lotta dough! Ohio must be looking pretty bad.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAs a native Ohioan, it boggles my mind a bit that Cleveland and Columbus are the heaviest buys in the chart above. Those two cities are *so* reliably blue, most times. Ohio must be looking pretty bad, indeed. It's sort of curious that the polls don't look worse for Strickland and Fisher than they do; I'd hope that more people would realize how toxic Dem policies have been.
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