Obama's Florida Dominance: 9,785 More Ads

WSJ:

In Florida's living rooms, the presidential contest so far has been a landslide -- Barack Obama, 9,785; John McCain, zero.

That is the tally of local television commercials broadcast by each candidate in the state, whose 27 electoral votes Sen. McCain almost certainly needs to win the White House. Recent polls in Florida show Sen. McCain holding a small edge.

The Obama campaign has spent about $6.5 million on TV advertising in Florida, according to the Campaign Media Analysis Group, a unit of media tracker TNS Media Intelligence. In part, the spending can be attributed to the Democrat's late start there. He refrained from campaigning in Florida during the primary season after the Democratic Party penalized the state for holding its primary early.

A spokesman for Sen. McCain declined to discuss why the campaign hasn't run TV ads in Florida, but said the Republican is investing heavily in the state and is doing well. "We've got offices across the state and a very robust operation," said Jeff Sadosky. "That's a state where we won a primary."

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Comments

[unscum]

07:46 PM on 08/12/2008

Florida is a goner. The jews, rednecks and cubans are going to go for McCain regardless of Obama's message or the number of ads he runs.

It's best Obama concentrate on flipping more progressive states like Colorado, New Mexico, Virginia and Indiana.

[mergina]

05:44 PM on 08/12/2008

What a waste. He is so going to lose in Florida.

[anthonylee]

12:19 AM on 08/13/2008

Whatever you have to tell yourself to sleep at night. . . . .

Come November, the Republican loss will be even uglier than predicted . . . and this includes Florida.

[Countdown09]

04:52 PM on 08/12/2008

Perhaps Mc Cain see's no reason to spend money in a state Jeb Bush already has rigged for him to win.

[pupbayer]

04:50 PM on 08/12/2008

O has spent $6.5 million and McC still leads? And FL did see O ads during the FL primary. He aired national ads and those were OK'ed by the Party so they did air in FL. He outspent HRC 3-1 and 4-1 in many primaries and barely beat her. It's a good thing he has a lot of money. It sounds like he's going to need it.

[Daniboy]

03:46 PM on 08/12/2008

If Obama should lose, we can always claim that the Repubs fixed it again. I don't know how many people will believe us, but we can still claim it.

[butchie65]

03:32 PM on 08/12/2008

4real, my exact thoughts !

[WongChin]

03:23 PM on 08/12/2008

Wow! Obama has spent more than McCain on ads, but I have seen (in California) much more of McCain, courtesy of CNN free airing!

When Anderson Cooper & co. were asking, "Why is Obama not leading heavily?," they failed to address the role of the media in the stalemate. Deconstruct and undermine Obama 24/7 and tally the minutes and scream: "Bingo! The press favors Obama!" Whereas, McCain's minutes would outstrip Obama's if the press focused on McCain's numerous gaffes, infidelity, lobbyists, etc.

During the primaries, some bogus institute came out with this study that DID NOT say the press spent more time on Obama but that the press gave Obama more positive coverage--a very subjective conclusion nobody questioned. They and the press are no longer interested in counting positive and negative minutes!

If they counted minutes in the primaries, Obama may have come out en par with or less favored than Hillary, so they went with positive/negative. If they count positive/negative now, McCain would appear to be the favored one, so they are now counting total number of minutes, 90% of which are negative on Obama.

Just to sustain the narrative.

[4real]

03:01 PM on 08/12/2008

This sounds suspicious. If FL is indeed a battleground state why in the world would McCane not run commercials?

Maybe the outcome is already fixed?

[ThunderclapNewman]

03:24 PM on 08/12/2008

O has money.
McMaverick---not so much.

It's that simple.

[pupbayer]

04:54 PM on 08/12/2008

I guess we'll see if money can buy a Presidential election.

[DaOne]

02:43 PM on 08/12/2008

Florida can be won by O by registering new voters and getting them out to vote on election day. Anything worth having is worth fighting hard for.

Obama 08

[YouDisgustMe]

02:38 PM on 08/12/2008

do the right thing Florida!

[ArmyCentrist]

02:32 PM on 08/12/2008

Just saying "JEREMIAH WRIGHT, REZCO, AEYERS" doesn't do much to explain why these things make BO a bad choice for President...in that case, I'll just scream "KEATING FIVE, LEAVING HIS WIFE, SELLING AMERICAN JOBS, MULTI-MILLIONAIRE, VOTED FOR THE WAR,HAS EARLY STAGE ALZHEIMERS" over and over too...and being intelligent doesn't make you an elitist, hun...

[sandpiper1]

02:41 PM on 08/12/2008

You left out his current wife is a mobster's daughter...Jim Hensley and Kemper Marly and her addiction and forging employees' signatures to get narcotics which is a crime. She should have done jail time but her family's & McCain's connections got her a deal. Her file is sealed.

[millertime]

02:27 PM on 08/12/2008

I live in Florida, and I can tell you that I am seeing plenty of McCain ads, on a daily basis.....I don't know where you get the info that there are no ads playing, but I can assure you that is not the case....every time I see them saying that " the biggest celebrity wants to raise your taxes and increase spending", it makes my stomach turn and my skin crawl......

[doctorwang]

02:38 PM on 08/12/2008

"it makes my stomach turn and my skin crawl......"

Maybe you should lay off the 'Miller' for awhile.....

[Cassie129]

03:11 PM on 08/12/2008

On local television, or on national TV? Maybe what you are seeing are national buys?

[flydoghead]

02:25 PM on 08/12/2008

55 Electorial votes.....

laugh while you can monkey boy

[flydoghead]

02:41 PM on 08/12/2008

55 electorial votes in California

don't know why this post ended up here ...... ?

[Daniboy]

02:25 PM on 08/12/2008

With all this advertising Obama is up by 15 points-right!

[flydoghead]

02:49 PM on 08/12/2008

The numbers only count on one day in November, Danny

[MaxxEliot]

02:27 PM on 08/12/2008

And yet he is behind in the polls....not very encouraging.

[Countdown09]

05:00 PM on 08/12/2008

First you can make a poll say anything you want if you ask the right people the right questions to give you the result you looking for. But I'm not sure this is a bad thing for O. If people believed he had it in the bag already, it could negatively effect fund raising and volunteer efforts, and worst people not voting.

[psychmaj323]

09:02 PM on 08/12/2008

Too early to rely heavily on these polls for reassurance.