You Will See LOTS Of McCain Ads During DNC Convention!!!

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Saturday August 16, 2008 · 7:56 AM PDT

2008/08/16 · 07:56

Yesterday, I posted this idea on Strategy08 about Obama reserving a huge chunk of ad time during the Republican National Convention to air his ads to conservative and independent viewers tuning in to watch the RNC.

How about this for an idea? I’m not that quite well-versed on ad buys, but I remember that Obama bought up a huge chunk of ad time for the Olympics. Why not the same for the Republican National Convention? I think that would present an excellent opportunity to run ads defining John McCain, and outlining Obama’s own policies for middle class families for the voters in Michigan. Also, I would strongly suggest that Obama reserve a HUGE amount of the ad time for the Democratic National Convention in order to prevent McCain from getting in some ad time.

GUESS WHAT? It seems that someone in the McCain campaign had the same idea and decided to buy a huge chunk of ad time during the Democratic National Convention to bring their case to progressive and independent viewers tuning in to watch.

"McCain now has enough financial resources to break tradition and advertise during the opposition's convention week," said Republican strategist Scott Reed, who was campaign manager for former Sen. Bob Dole in his 1996 presidential run.

"The McCain camp is building a case about Obama's ability to lead and needs to keep the pressure on his weakness with voters."

And here's the response from the Obama campaign:

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama's campaign was staying mum on whether it would follow suit during the Republican convention.

"We don't have a comment," spokesman Tommy Vietor said.

Did this even occur to the Obama campaign to buy a huge chunk of ad time during the Republican National Convention? It seems the McCain campaign outflanked them on this one. Disappointing. This is a very good strategy to use since it works to depress whatever convention bounce that Obama will get.

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