Kerry flip flops on advertising strategy

[Tim><]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/09/strategy.ap/index.html

[krank]

....highly convoluted explanation...

In summary you're wrong

[Tim><]

I was just rewriting the gist of the article. Am I wrong or is the article?

[Aaron Brachowitz]

Haven't the two campaigns reached the saturation point in the key states? I would think that at this point the only effect of pouring more ad money into a market would be to raise the price of a TV ad by the same proportion.

[krank]

I was just rewriting the gist of the article. Am I wrong or is the article?

I'm not taking any more questions on this particular issue I will reiterate my basic point however:

You're wrong

Thanks you and goodnight

[krank]

Haven't the two campaigns reached the saturation point in the key states? I would think that at this point the only effect of pouring more ad money into a market would be to raise the price of a TV ad by the same proportion.

You overestimate the attention span of the average voter.

[Tim><]

I was just rewriting the gist of the article. Am I wrong or is the article?

I'm not taking any more questions on this particular issue I will reiterate my basic point however:

You're wrong

Thanks you and goodnight

Have you been hit in the head? I think you're seeing little Griffins fly by . . .

[Pseudolus]

Haven't the two campaigns reached the saturation point in the key states? I would think that at this point the only effect of pouring more ad money into a market would be to raise the price of a TV ad by the same proportion.

Someone refresh my memory: Aren't there laws regulating how much a TV station can charge a campaign for ad time? I seem to recall something about this, but not the specifics.

[krank]

I was just rewriting the gist of the article. Am I wrong or is the article?

I'm not taking any more questions on this particular issue I will reiterate my basic point however:

You're wrong

Thanks you and goodnight

Have you been hit in the head? I think you're seeing little Griffins fly by . . .
:D I think my response to AB was more of a classic Griffin post. Nah I just think the flipflop premise is silly as obviously each campaign will spend more where they deem it is appropriate. I highly doubt Kerry spent much in TX either.

[Tim><]

I agree that it is correct strategy. I was just paraphrasing the opening statement in the article:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After months of pledging to contest President Bush in every region of the country, Sen. John Kerry and Democrats are limiting television advertising to 14 battleground states as the fall campaign opens.

I think it was a stupid pledge, and I think that this is the politically sound strategy.

[Griffin 3]

I think my response to AB was more of a classic Griffin post.You're not very good at it.
Nah I just think the flipflop premise is silly as obviously each campaign will spend more where they deem it is appropriate. I highly doubt Kerry spent much in TX either.The flip from the flop is that he promised to campaign in all regions.

[Mulan]

Has anyone seen any campaign advertizing this year from either presidental candidates? Since I rarely watch network TV, I've seen absolutely none. However, I do NOT live in a contested or swing state.

How about you?

[HangerAngler]

I live in Pennsylvania, and I see an amount that is proportional to the amount of TV that I watch. I can't stand any of it, b/c I don't believe that any of it says anything constructive.

They should do nothing but debate and sign legally-binding oaths during the whole campaign process.

[E. Blackadder]

Terrible, isn't it? At least you have your choice of Harvard PhDs to put into the senate. One's a nutcase, the other is his party's 32nd choice. :D

Did they even put Bush on the ballot?

[Mulan]

Terrible, isn't it? At least you have your choice of Harvard PhDs to put into the senate. One's a nutcase, the other is his party's 32nd choice. :D

Did they even put Bush on the ballot?I'm going to write in "Jack Ryan" for both races.

[Tim><]

Terrible, isn't it? At least you have your choice of Harvard PhDs to put into the senate. One's a nutcase, the other is his party's 32nd choice. :D

Did they even put Bush on the ballot?I'm going to write in "Jack Ryan" for both races.

Egad. You're a tax regressionist. Isn't he also against abortion?

[E. Blackadder]

Terrible, isn't it? At least you have your choice of Harvard PhDs to put into the senate. One's a nutcase, the other is his party's 32nd choice. :D

Did they even put Bush on the ballot?I'm going to write in "Jack Ryan" for both races.

Egad. You're a tax regressionist. Isn't he also against abortion?

No, she's a science fiction fan! Anime, anyway. Close enough.

[krank]

I think my response to AB was more of a classic Griffin post.You're not very good at it.
Nah I just think the flipflop premise is silly as obviously each campaign will spend more where they deem it is appropriate. I highly doubt Kerry spent much in TX either.The flip from the flop is that he promised to campaign in all regions.
I agree this is a non issue for me at least. However it's not his service per say that is being questioned but rather his character (which he did make part of his campaign) as it appears he may have lied all this time.

You're right you are the master of asinine comments, kudos