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sunonmars

(8,656 posts)
Thu Oct 27, 2016, 07:28 PM Oct 2016

Bloodbath 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 she’s 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 Clinton’s 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 hasn’t made any official announcement or alerted her swing state operatives about final spending plans, Clinton’s 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.
“We’ve 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 that’s 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 Clinton’s 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 it’s raised less than Barack Obama’s 2012 operation.




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Bloodbath coming- Clinton camp says it entered the final stretch with $153 million on hand (Original Post) sunonmars Oct 2016 OP
Sink the entire party. Dawson Leery Oct 2016 #1
I don't think tv ads matter this election Proud liberal 80 Oct 2016 #2
What matters is which candidate has the capacity for higher level strategic planning Xipe Totec Oct 2016 #4
No. You must also smash him to pieces with ads showing him UNFIT and UNWORTHY of the office. RBInMaine Oct 2016 #11
Wow Thrill Oct 2016 #3
Squash him. TonyPDX Oct 2016 #5
Use it all down ticket, take back the House and Senate. sarcasmo Oct 2016 #7
now there's a good plan nt msongs Oct 2016 #8
Let's do this Farmgirl1961 Oct 2016 #9
They should go hard for Texas... NoGoodNamesLeft Oct 2016 #10
I don't think any of his supporters will change their votes. cwydro Oct 2016 #12

Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts)
4. What matters is which candidate has the capacity for higher level strategic planning
Thu Oct 27, 2016, 07:36 PM
Oct 2016

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)
11. No. You must also smash him to pieces with ads showing him UNFIT and UNWORTHY of the office.
Thu Oct 27, 2016, 08:52 PM
Oct 2016

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.

 

NoGoodNamesLeft

(2,056 posts)
10. They should go hard for Texas...
Thu Oct 27, 2016, 08:46 PM
Oct 2016

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)
12. I don't think any of his supporters will change their votes.
Thu Oct 27, 2016, 09:01 PM
Oct 2016

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.

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