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[WillyT]

2:35 PM – Today

Why Are Republicans Making A Play For Pennsylvania?

@ DanTheDaily : source familiar with RNC IE just acknowledged to me main reason they really bought in PA is they couldn't spend anywhere else. airwaves full

Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/01/presidential-election-2012-live_n_2048946.html#103_why-are-republicans-making-a-play-for-pennsylvania

[skeewee08]

1. Bob Frum mention it on Ed show I believe it was Thursday

[Jackpine Radical]

2. So, unless they come up with something else, there's a ceiling on the Citizens United Effect.

It will probly take them a while to figure out how to spend their untold wealth in more effective ways to sqay the election.

My bet is that they start filling the media a lot earlier after Tuesday--sorta staying in permanent campaign mode from now until the next election.

[zbdent]

3. I'm surprised they didn't just take over the local stations

and, with C.U. and rMoney's money, run paid advertorials all day in the past week ...

[Barack_America]

12. Who would watch? There's already a channel for that...it's called Fox News.

Try that on any other channel and people will just switch it off.

[DarthDem]

6. Good Guess

But I don't know. Will programmers, even corporate ones, be interested in political advertising even in the "offseason?" Also, unless the target is an incumbent certain to run, it won't work, so that limits things a bit. Then there's DVRs. Do that many people even watch commercials anymore?

Great, thought-provoking stuff. Although Citizens United is the usual Supreme Court outrage, I thought there might be a ceiling on its effect, and it looks like there may in fact have been.

[Jackpine Radical]

7. If I were running it, I'd take over the show content.

Run the propaganda as part of the story lines, not as commercials.

[glacierbay]

9. Shhhhhhhhhhh

Don't give them any ideas.

Ah hell, what am I worried about, they're not smart enough to figure it out.

[DarthDem]

10. Nah, We Got That Covered

Hence the intermittent war on Hollywood from the wingnutjobs.

[Jackpine Radical]

16. We have it somewhat covered NOW.

But you think they couldn't buy up whatever they want in order to push their agenda in the mass entertainment media?

[malaise]

8. If they spend it on a Clear Channel station

Rmoney gets richer

[justabob]

11. all the money in the world won't help if

they have no message. The GOP has painted itself into so many corners that it is like a bizarre variant of an Escher print. They can't say anything about anything without pissing off a segment of their supporters. Likewise they cannot grow their base without the same thing happening. Reach out to glbtq or women and the fundies go apeshit. Reach out to the hispanics/other minorities and the racists/nativist people freak out etc. It will be interesting to see how They deal with it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. Actually, CU backfired

I expect a come to Jesus momemnt in getting rid of it.

[Iwasthere]

4. They could give out millions in bridery money

... to office holders in battleground states that are in a position stop or discourage voting.... oh wait

[progressivebydesign]

5. I tell ya, it's money laundering. Romney i spending donor money with Bain media..

and other RW media corporations. It's redistribution of wealth.

[lunatica]

13. There's nowhere else for them to go and they need

to look like they haven't given up. Hey! They don't mind looking like fools as long as their idiocratic base believe them.

[ohheckyeah]

15. I've had 4 phone calls today...

two from the RNC, one from Ryan and one from Susan B. Anthony Foundation with Fred Thompson telling me all about being "pro-life".

I live in Virginia.