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If I understand correctly, the Romney campaign is rolling in dough. If I were running the show, here’s what I would do:
1) Do big-ish new ad buys in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Minnesota, and small ones in Oregon and the 2nd District of Maine.
2) Keep Paul Ryan in Wisconsin for the rest of the campaign.
3) Do a late issue blitz on ObamaCare, and especially on its medical device tax.
Details: 1A) The Philly suburbs are ripe for a Romney mini-surge. I would buy TV and radio time there — and not just on the big-4 network affiliates, but on channels like the Home Shopping Network, A&E, the Lifetime Channel, and the Discovery Network. B) Scranton and Harrisburg probably both offer bang for the buck. Buy on ESPN and the History Channel there, too. C) I would buy time (it’s cheap) in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (which also bleeds a little into Wisconsin), in Marquette. Obama won the U.P. by 9,000 votes four years ago, but Romney could actually eke out a majority there and thus help eke out a win in the state. Of coruse, ad buys in places like Lansing also will be less expensive than in Detroit, and could make a real difference. D) I would do a sudden, large buy in Rochester, MN, against ObamaCare. Not only would this hit the Mayo audience, but Rochester TV also bleeds into Iowa and Wisconsin. E) In Oregon, the place to buy is Eugene. F) In Maine, I’d buy in Bangor, and I’d do radio in any little station in the 2nd district that also can be heard in NH.
2) Have Ryan treat the last seven days like a statewide race for governor. Have him crisscross the state, hitting all sorts of small towns, especially in the FOx River Valley. Get the rural areas on fire for his ticket. And end in his home district with this message: “Look, if you like what I’ve been able to do for you as a mere congressman, imagine how much good I can do for Wisconsin as vice president.” Don’t be afraid to make the explicit home-state sale. Do anything it takes to hype home-state pride. There never has been a president or vice president from Wisconsin. It’s time for that to change.
3) How can Obama be so heartless — not to mention so blind to the job-killing nature of his new tax for plants throughout the Midwest, especially in Wisconsin — as to put a major new tax on all sales of pacemakers, insulin pumps, catheters, asthma inhalers, prosthetics, and even artificial hips?
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Simon Templar| 10.29.12 @ 4:59PM
Those are some very good ideas. Now, hey, Romney campaign..listen up.....
Occam's Tool| 10.29.12 @ 6:35PM
Simple, Quin: Obama hates America and Americans. Even his supporters he despises.
Don't know about Rochester. Mayo is kind of Libtardy...he might want to hit rural Minnesota, though. We are IN PLAY!
RJ| 10.29.12 @ 7:21PM
Romney sure seems to have a ton of cash to spend for the next seven days. No reason to keep it on the sidelines (other than to possibly fight election challenges by Obama in any close states).
But Quin, you didn't mention Ohio. Do you think Romney has it locked up? Perhaps he already has it 100% covered and there is nothing more to do.
Quin Hillyer| 10.29.12 @ 7:45PM
I didn't mention Ohio only because he already is spending a ton of money there. As well he should!
RJ| 10.29.12 @ 10:13PM
Thanks. I am looking forward to a happy evening on November 6 and will be paying particular attention to the Senate races. Hopefully, Romney's increasing good fortune will help the GOP Senate nominees, like Josh Mandel.
Commander Kelly | 10.30.12 @ 6:14AM
Obama is playing defence and his Maginot line is crumbling. Patton said that "Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man." Obama's firewall is the political equivalent. L'audace, l'audace toujours l"audace should be romney's slogan. See "Napo-Bama" and much more only here...http://americanconservativeinlondon.blogspot.co.uk/
Oldefarte| 10.30.12 @ 9:49AM
Being a non-professional concerning political matters, here is what I would instead suggest: Place advertisements in as many states as possible discretly informing the public that this POTUS and his administration has performed the corruption act of ignoring the legal prosecution of the NBPP in Philadelphia for its voter intimidation, refused to issue oil drilling permits in Louisiana after the BP spill, sued Arizona/Alabama/Georgia over their illegal immigration laws passed, conducted a subversive gun-running etc operation within Lybia in order to further the political terrorism of the Muslim Brotherhood in Arab countries, wasted taxpayers' money to fund environmental/money losing economic interprises, wasted taxpayers' money by bailing out auto companies in Detroit all for the benefit of maintianing labor union employments, ditto via its stimilus spending for the benefit of municipal labor unions, cooperated with our enemy Russia in negating installation of missles in Poland, etc. In summary, this is the most politically corrupt administration that this country has ever experienced [and makes the nixon one seem like a group of Catholic altar boys in comparison]; and critically needs to be defeated on 11/6/12 and to inform the still ignorant that their nation's survival is at stake!!!!!!!!!!!!