Ron Paul dropping literature in New Hampshire
In Manchester's second ward, to be exact.
Rumors that volunteers are passing out chocolate gold coins to trick-or-treaters are, as yet, unconfirmed.
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In Manchester's second ward, to be exact.
Rumors that volunteers are passing out chocolate gold coins to trick-or-treaters are, as yet, unconfirmed.
On the Democratic side, Bill Richardson is back on the air at WMUR for the first time this month:
Period of ad buy: Oct. 22-28
Number of spots: 31 (all 60 seconds long)
Cost: $50,000
Nah. Still dark on WMUR.
I do hear he likes the Red Sox, though.
To date, Mitt Romney's campaign ad buys on WMUR-TV alone total more than $1.7 million this year.
By the end of this month, he will have run 1,700 spots on the station -- that's five or six a day, every day of the calendar year.
The latest ad buy for John McCain at WMUR-TV:
Oct. 26 to Nov. 4, $72,700 for 99 spots.
This buy includes McCain's "Woodstock" ad, although I am not sure how many times that particular spot will run in the next week.
Ron Paul goes up on WMUR-TV next week with a modest ad buy: $18,600 for 22 spots.
Mitt Romney continues to outspend every other presidential candidate, Democrat and Republican, on WMUR-TV. His latest buy is the highest to date for 2007.
Dates: October 24-30
Total spending: $158,825
Number of spots: 140
Ron Paul Nation is smiling this morning: A new Saint Anselm College poll (via the Union Leader) puts Texas Congressman Ron Paul in fourth place in the New Hampshire Republican primary.
As usual, Graniteprof is a prophet with feet of clay. What to do when idle July speculation comes true in November? Leave the table or double down?
When you're done here, be sure and check out the debut of my colleague, Dean Spiliotes, in the New Hampshire blogosphere. Spiliotes was doing this when Cosmo was still watching first-run Seinfeld episodes, and you can expect the usual thoughtfulness at his new home.
With, of course, just a little bit of attitude.
For instance, today Spiliotes flies in the face of the CW and calls the Clinton campaign to task for running a general election campaign during a primary:
Her campaign must know the danger of eschewing intra-party
dialogue in the primaries for a candidacy tailored to the more centrist
and incremental preferences of the general electorate. Clinton’s
decision to increasingly highlight her ability to work within the
current political system, rather than to change it, may not resonate
with Democratic primary voters eager for a more substantial recasting
of our national politics.
Here's my question: Do Democratic primary voters in the Granite State still have the urge for the upset?
After all, for the last two cycles New Hampshire was where insurgent campaigns went to die. New Hampshire all but ended Bill Bradley's campaign in 2000, and did the same to Howard Dean in 2004.
(Second thoughts: Of course one could argue that Barack Obama is a better candidate than Dean or Bradley was. He's got twelve weeks to prove that, at any rate.)
Here is the last date these Democrats were up on the air at WMUR-TV:
Chris Dodd July 1
John Edwards July 29
Bill Richardson September 26 *
* Richardson's last ad buy was just seven spots for $6,000, right at the time of the Dartmouth College debate. Before that, his last time on the air was August 13.
