McCain To Start Ads in Virginia
U.S. Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is expected to start airing ads in Virginia on Tuesday.
His campaign bought air time for 60-second TV ads in Norfolk, Richmond, Roanoke, Harrisonburg, Charlottesville and southwest Virginia.
Virginians have supported Republicans for president for more than three decades. But Democrats have won recent statewide races for governor and U.S. Senate, prompting many political watchers to say Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, may have a shot at winning Virginia. The week-long ad buy means McCain's campaign may not consider Virginia a sure win either.
McCain's campaign did not buy ads in Northern Virginia, according to a source familiar with the media buy. His largest buy was in southwest Virginia, where he is already expected to do well.
Obama has already aired two general election television ads in Virginia.
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Posted by: Earl C | July 4, 2008 4:33 PM
So Will Amnesty John McCain also being out
running some other campaign adds in Spanish
down in Mexico and Columbia,in McCain's new
quest to be elected "El Presidente For Life" of Mexico and Columbia as well?..
Someone,from McCain's campaign needs to go
remain McCain that he is supposed to be here in the USA running for Prsident of the
US not Mexico and Columbia and that if McCain keeps on pandering to LaRaz,and the
Hispanic Vote,that will cost him the
election as well. Do we need throw McCain
under the bus along with Barack Hussein
Obama and Hillary Clinton over their endless pandering and support of Illegal
Alien Amnesty now then? Dump all of them!
Posted by: Sherry Kay2004 | July 4, 2008 4:47 PM
Not really surprising. I'm curious what those ads cost. Except for Richmond, I bet all those TV stations are dirt cheap. Even Richmond is far less expensive than DC. This is a good move on his part.
Posted by: Jeff C | July 4, 2008 8:27 PM
response to: (Earl C | July 4, 2008 4:33 PM)
You hit the nail on the head. Apparently Gilmore was the best the GOP could do this cycle. That's very telling. I suspect that VA will be in the toss-up column for prez, right down to the wire. It will probably come down to voter turnout, and whether or not Obama is perceived as centrist enough. I hate to be a naysayer, but Obama will probably have a better chance at pickups in the West - Northwest in particular. A few Red Midwestern states are also in play now. I tend to disagree with the notion that some deep-South states are also in play. I suspect that the "redneck factor" may cancel out any gains among minority turnout.
Posted by: Dr. Don Key | July 4, 2008 9:31 PM
McCain? NO SEÑOR!
Borders, Language, Culture? YES!
Alan Keyes for President
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Read the CONSERVATIVE party platform:
www.selfgovernment.us
www.americasrevival.com
www.renewamerica.us
Posted by: Katrinka Yobotz | July 5, 2008 3:36 PM
Obama has a good team of heavies who can mount a real attack in Virginia - and McCain has nothing to counter them with.
If Obama saturates Va with ads and sends in Jim Webb as attack dog against McCain, he has a real chance to take the state. If anything, the Republicans will have to spend both bucks and time to defend in a state they've taken for granted.
Posted by: cranky investor | July 7, 2008 2:00 AM
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Great! The first long-time red state to start the outflow of McCain's campaign funds. Let him run his ads. I hope that he has to pay a bundle. I'll not watch them. Except when Obama speaks, TV usually puts me to sleep anyway. Seeing McCain in a 60-second ad will have me sleeping in ten seconds. Sorry, but this is the way McCain affects me after his straight-talk express fell off its wheels. It looks like Virginia will have two Democratic senators and will vote for Obama. It is time that Virginia leads the way again in the affairs of this nation. It's been a very long time since we gave the country a President, not since Woodrow Wilson. Obama is not from Virginia, but I am ready for us to adopt him. Hasn't Jim Webb done wonders in the Senate? Expect even more when Mark Warner becomes a U.S. Senator.