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Thu Sep 6, 2012, 11:58 AM

highplainsdem (11,110 posts)

Romney cedes Ohio TV airwaves to Obama (at least for now)

Source: LA Times

CLEVELAND -- If you switched on a television in northern Ohio this week, chances are you saw an ad for President Obama’s reelection campaign. Or two. Or three. Over and over again.

Mitt Romney? Nothing.

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But Romney’s temporary withdrawal has been striking here in northern Ohio, where what had looked to TV viewers for months like an evenly matched, if annoying, ad battle transformed into a lopsided all-Obama-all-the-time promotion campaign, with news coverage of the Democratic National Convention amplifying the president’s message.

The Romney vacuum was especially noteworthy given that early voting in Ohio starts in less than four weeks.

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Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-romney-obama-ohio-ads-20120906,0,4157574.story

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Reply Romney cedes Ohio TV airwaves to Obama (at least for now) (Original post)
 highplainsdem Sep 2012 OP
LineNew Reply Heard on Thom Hartmann they are going to start the "gay marriage sh!t" soon
 Kolesar Sep 2012 #1
LineLineNew Reply They have to run on bigotry, racism, xenophobia, and hate. Their policies are shit.
 JRLeft Sep 2012 #3
LineLineNew Reply It's already started...
 onehandle Sep 2012 #13
LineLineLineNew Reply No, Obama is NOT trying to force same-sex marriage on the country...
 nanabugg Sep 2012 #17
LineLineLineLineNew Reply Right. Frame it as "Equality of marriage" and "Freedom to marry" and "honoring commitment", etc.
 Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2012 #29
LineLineLineNew Reply ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL
 snooper2 Sep 2012 #21
LineLineLineNew Reply Already?
 Mr.Turnip Sep 2012 #26
LineLineNew Reply OK
 bluemarkers Sep 2012 #14
LineLineLineNew Reply Great point but it's a metaphor? nt
 nanabugg Sep 2012 #16
LineLineLineLineNew Reply yes
 bluemarkers Sep 2012 #19
LineLineLineNew Reply As defined ...
 Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2012 #30
LineNew Reply Their old ads weren't working. They will create new lies.
 JRLeft Sep 2012 #2
LineNew Reply GOPpers super duper pacs haven't given up yet and sure not the OH GOP.
 Iliyah Sep 2012 #4
LineNew Reply This further validates the story about Obama's internal polls...
 CoffeeCat Sep 2012 #5
LineLineNew Reply According to another thread they seem to be conceding MI and PA. It sounds to good to be
 Guy Whitey Corngood Sep 2012 #8
LineLineLineNew Reply Yup.
 KamaAina Sep 2012 #18
LineLineLineLineNew Reply That is what I suspect.
 xxqqqzme Sep 2012 #23
LineLineNew Reply I think the grass roots efforts are stonger than the media will
 INdemo Sep 2012 #12
LineNew Reply Wow..interesting.
 My Pet Goat Sep 2012 #6
LineLineNew Reply I agree. Romney panic means they will go dirty far sooner than expected
 TeamPooka Sep 2012 #7
LineNew Reply A cautionary note....
 Liberal_Stalwart71 Sep 2012 #9
LineLineNew Reply I don't believe for one minute they're giving OH or PA up so soon. Unless
 Guy Whitey Corngood Sep 2012 #11
LineNew Reply Same in Michigan and now Ohio while they develop new lies?
 gordianot Sep 2012 #10
LineLineNew Reply Sarah Palin figured that one out a long time ago.
 Mr.Bill Sep 2012 #22
LineNew Reply They know it's in the bag for them because the machines are set and they are going to steal it again
 nanabugg Sep 2012 #15
LineNew Reply Tactics
 TomClash Sep 2012 #20
LineLineNew Reply Or a strategic withdrawal.
 sofa king Sep 2012 #24
LineLineLineNew Reply Yes,I remember. Nt
 TomClash Sep 2012 #27
LineNew Reply wow. What does it mean...
 BootinUp Sep 2012 #25
LineNew Reply Will take it,
 elleng Sep 2012 #28

Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Sep 6, 2012, 12:05 PM

Star Member Kolesar (29,322 posts)

1. Heard on Thom Hartmann they are going to start the "gay marriage sh!t" soon

His guest said it yesterday or Tuesday.

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Response to Kolesar (Reply #1)

Thu Sep 6, 2012, 12:09 PM

JRLeft (1,953 posts)

3. They have to run on bigotry, racism, xenophobia, and hate. Their policies are shit.

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Response to Kolesar (Reply #1)

Thu Sep 6, 2012, 12:33 PM

Star Member onehandle (35,427 posts)

13. It's already started...

Being 'tested' during the DNC in NC.



http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/09/ad_supporting_romney_claims_ob.html

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Response to onehandle (Reply #13)

Thu Sep 6, 2012, 12:56 PM

nanabugg (2,198 posts)

17. No, Obama is NOT trying to force same-sex marriage on the country...

 

Obama is not forcing anyone to enter into a same-sex marriage. Obama is merely allowing people to marry whom they want and keep the government out of our bedrooms.

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Response to nanabugg (Reply #17)

Thu Sep 6, 2012, 11:18 PM

Bernardo de La Paz (7,142 posts)

29. Right. Frame it as "Equality of marriage" and "Freedom to marry" and "honoring commitment", etc.

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Response to onehandle (Reply #13)

Thu Sep 6, 2012, 01:02 PM

Star Member snooper2 (16,603 posts)

21. ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL



they are going to have to get a lot more creative than that LOL..

How about two men kissing and a building blowing up in the background or something, maybe a whole city imploding LOL

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Response to onehandle (Reply #13)

Thu Sep 6, 2012, 05:48 PM

Mr.Turnip (624 posts)

26. Already?

Can't they wait a few more weeks before giving in to pure fundie pandering?

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Response to Kolesar (Reply #1)

Thu Sep 6, 2012, 12:50 PM

bluemarkers (454 posts)

14. OK

Last edited Thu Sep 6, 2012, 12:55 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

I was just rereading Matthew 25, you know the story of a traditional marriage: The Bridegroom and the 10 Virgins? Oh, you don't? Neither does the gop or it's worshipers

Maybe they should be reminded?

eta: I'm being sarcastic to a point - it makes me sad that gays are being used as pawns. I've brought up Solomon and his wives as an example of traditional marriage and it's totally dismissed.... I'd forgotten about this parable until today.

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Thu Sep 6, 2012, 12:54 PM

nanabugg (2,198 posts)

16. Great point but it's a metaphor? nt

 

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Response to nanabugg (Reply #16)

Thu Sep 6, 2012, 12:59 PM

bluemarkers (454 posts)

19. yes

but the gop keeps bringing up "Biblical" definition of marriage, this is an example of what was common at the time the Bible was written....

Solomon otoh.... wow

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Thu Sep 6, 2012, 11:21 PM

Bernardo de La Paz (7,142 posts)

30. As defined ...

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Sep 6, 2012, 12:08 PM

JRLeft (1,953 posts)

2. Their old ads weren't working. They will create new lies.

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Sep 6, 2012, 12:10 PM

Iliyah (2,347 posts)

4. GOPpers super duper pacs haven't given up yet and sure not the OH GOP.

Voter suppression is alive and ugly as hell. I went back to my history books, yep, the actual true history not the make believe ones that the GOP party of the uneducated want you to believe and people - white, black, brown, Asian fought for 1964/1965 voting civil rights and these motherfuckers are trying to kill it.

SHAME SHAME SHAME

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Sep 6, 2012, 12:11 PM

Star Member CoffeeCat (19,419 posts)

5. This further validates the story about Obama's internal polls...

...that show a 9-point lead for Obama in Ohio.

Romney and his sidekick frat-boy Ryan have been focusing on and Iowa/Wisconsin/Michigan
strategy--hoping to make up for a most likely Obama Ohio win.

Too bad, it won't work.

I will still work hard and volunteer for Obama, but I am smelling a very decisive victory for Obama in November.

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Response to CoffeeCat (Reply #5)

Thu Sep 6, 2012, 12:17 PM

Star Member Guy Whitey Corngood (14,847 posts)

8. According to another thread they seem to be conceding MI and PA. It sounds to good to be

true, But that's what I read.

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Thu Sep 6, 2012, 12:56 PM

KamaAina (45,230 posts)

18. Yup.

I'm wondering if they're giving up on Rmoney and Lyin' Ryan and putting all the $$$ into Congressional, especially Senate, races, like they did with Dole/Kemp in '96.

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Thu Sep 6, 2012, 01:40 PM

xxqqqzme (13,430 posts)

23. That is what I suspect.

If the rethugs lose the house, their take down of the country will be dealt a mighty blow. Elizabeth Warren is about to get hit by a fast moving fireball, leaving scorched earth in its wake. I hope her campaign is ready. She is a treasure.

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Thu Sep 6, 2012, 12:24 PM

INdemo (3,160 posts)

12. I think the grass roots efforts are stonger than the media will

report. If Florida polls should show a substantial lead (convention bump) is it over?
Being such a big autom0tive state,the large lead in the polls would make sense..

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Sep 6, 2012, 12:14 PM

My Pet Goat (352 posts)

6. Wow..interesting.

I suscribe to the conventional wisdom that there is no way Romney would pull advertising from Ohio even if his internal polling showed him 15 points down because doing so would be akin to admitting likely national defeat.

So they must be switching to a Plan "B". There's no way however they would have originally planned to go off the air in northern Ohio for weeks during such a critical time in the campaign. No, this was a hurried, unexpected switch to Plan "B" probably because Plan "A" advertising was extremely ineffective.

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Thu Sep 6, 2012, 12:16 PM

Star Member TeamPooka (3,286 posts)

7. I agree. Romney panic means they will go dirty far sooner than expected

Last edited Thu Sep 6, 2012, 12:17 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

here come the super PACS money dump.

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Sep 6, 2012, 12:19 PM

Star Member Liberal_Stalwart71 (13,852 posts)

9. A cautionary note....

Because the Romney camp has raised untold millions in campaign funds, they may be pulling back only temporarily and employing a rope-a-dope strategy where they release an onslaught of negative ads ads during the last few days of the campaign.

They also may be reserving some of those funds for a massive ground game assault.

Whatever the strategy is, I hope I'm wrong. I hope that they really don't see much hope in MI and PA at least.

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Thu Sep 6, 2012, 12:21 PM

Star Member Guy Whitey Corngood (14,847 posts)

11. I don't believe for one minute they're giving OH or PA up so soon. Unless

they trust the voter suppression efforts will "win" it for them.

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Thu Sep 6, 2012, 12:21 PM

Star Member gordianot (6,478 posts)

10. Same in Michigan and now Ohio while they develop new lies?

Since the United States is to be run on a buisness model maybe the vultures have found a way to cash in on a failing Political Campaign?

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Thu Sep 6, 2012, 01:27 PM

Mr.Bill (890 posts)

22. Sarah Palin figured that one out a long time ago.

She's made far more money losing than she would have by winning.

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Thu Sep 6, 2012, 12:52 PM

nanabugg (2,198 posts)

15. They know it's in the bag for them because the machines are set and they are going to steal it again

 

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Thu Sep 6, 2012, 01:01 PM

Star Member TomClash (10,948 posts)

20. Tactics

After the ball bounces, they will try to take the air out of the ball. The money is enough to create an avalanche.

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Response to TomClash (Reply #20)

Thu Sep 6, 2012, 01:53 PM

sofa king (8,695 posts)

24. Or a strategic withdrawal.

In military history, when one side recognizes a vulnerability in its position, it can make a "strategic withdrawal" to a new, more defensible position.

But here's why so many great captains in history avoided such movements, if possible: because by pulling back, that side surrenders the initiative to the other side.

Whatever Romney is doing, he is allowing President Obama to temporarily set the tone and the pace of the campaign in Ohio.

Remember also that Romney only needs to get close enough--within the margin of error--to steal it. The President has to be polling outside of that margin on the weekend before the election in order to win there.

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Response to sofa king (Reply #24)

Thu Sep 6, 2012, 08:28 PM

Star Member TomClash (10,948 posts)

27. Yes,I remember. Nt

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Thu Sep 6, 2012, 03:21 PM

Star Member BootinUp (25,607 posts)

25. wow. What does it mean...

nt

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Sep 6, 2012, 08:30 PM

Star Member elleng (40,520 posts)

28. Will take it,

but what will they do in October?

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