2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBloodbath coming- Clinton camp says it entered the final stretch with $153 million on hand
Wow, they are going to blanket tha airwaves and pay for the ground game with a massive war chest.
8 million + a day, thats a lot of cash to play with........carpet bomb Trump into Oblivion.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/hillary-clinton-ad-blitz-battleground-states-229252
Clinton preps final-stage blitz against Trump
The Democrat has as much cash ready for the final stretch as any candidate ever. And shes sending it to Battleground America.
Her operatives expect her to use it to blanket the battleground states with both organizers and a heavy dose of anti-Donald Trump ads.
In-state Democratic operatives are planning for a significant tranche of the money coming from the $150 million Clintons campaign and associated accounts had in the bank to start October to be added to the previously announced $80 million television investment her team previewed at the start of this final phase, on top of other paid media and a heavily-funded get-out-the-vote push.
And while Brooklyn hasnt made any official announcement or alerted her swing state operatives about final spending plans, Clintons finance team led by Dennis Cheng told donors the resources will go to paid media, organizers and voter registration.
Now, in the states where the election will be decided Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania in particular Democrats' active preparations for that influx have already started.
Weve kind of turned a corner. Everything is fever pitch, because now vote-by-mail ballots, I think over two million, land in mailboxes, so every day is Election Day, explained Florida Rep. Kathy Castor of Tampa, outlining a charged landscape thats reflected in the other top-tier battlegrounds. And that will ratchet up [further] when early voting starts."
A last-second ad and organizing blitz is hardly unusual in campaigns, but the size and intensity of Clintons could feel like none before due both to the resource imbalance between her campaign and Trump's, and her team's insistence on stockpiling highly coveted political funds until now, even as its raised less than Barack Obamas 2012 operation.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Proud liberal 80
(4,167 posts)The ground game and GOTV will though
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Which candidate has the grit, the power, the stamina, and the determination to win, and which candidate is a whinny orange ball of belly button lint.
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)These ads WORK. Show every ad reminding people how sexist, rotten, and unfit he is. The ads of him talking about pu***y grabbing, making fun of the disabled man, calling girls dogs and pigs, etc. ramp up Trump's negatives in the endgame and REMIND people why he is a completely unacceptable candidate.
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TonyPDX
(962 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)msongs
(67,405 posts)Farmgirl1961
(1,493 posts)n/t
NoGoodNamesLeft
(2,056 posts)She can win there and if she does then there is no way Trump can win because Texas has too many electoral votes.
There are about 4 million more Mexican born immigrants who have become citizens and can vote for the first time since 2012. Hispanic turn out in Texas is going to be huge this year. They make up a very large portion of the voting population. Texas could easily go blue.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Perhaps an undecided or two.
But the Trump folks that I've had the misfortune to meet simply DO NOT CARE about who he truly is.