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The ground game vs. the TV game

August 19th, 2008 at 02:48pm Pat Cunningham

FiveThirtyEight.com has an INTERESTING POST on the difference between Barack Obama’s ground game and John McCain’s TV game.

The point is that campaign money sometimes is better spent on field organizing than on television advertising.

Obama’s field operation (a small sample of which is represented by the photo above) is the most massive in the history of American politics.

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1. Menlo Bob | August 19th, 2008 at 5:37 pm

Great idea. Talk about the ground game when your quarterback has a stuttering problem. Yesterday the problem was the other quarterback not being in the locker room. Tomorrow it’ll be something else.
2. Pat Cunningham | August 19th, 2008 at 6:37 pm

What are you babbling about? You’re beginning to sound like Kaus. It’s called politics, Bob. Try learning a little about it.
3. Menlo Bob | August 19th, 2008 at 9:36 pm

Getting nervious eh?
4. Pat Cunningham | August 19th, 2008 at 9:58 pm

Nervous? Obama has a huge lead in electoral votes. I’m not the least bit nervous. Obama is running strong in states with a total of 214 electoral votes, and has states with another 50 electoral votes leaning his way. If those numbers stay the same, that means he needs to pick up only six of the 94 electoral votes in the toss-up states to win the election. McCain can have all the electoral votes where he’s running strong or where the states are leaning his way, and he’d have to pick up 90 of the 94 electoral votes in toss-up states to win. Not bloody likely, friend.

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