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Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Jim Martin leads with Max Cleland in his first TV ad
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jim Martin, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, has decided that the first image you’ll see in his general election campaign will be the face of Max Cleland.
Cleland, of course, was ousted in 2002 by Saxby Chambliss, now the Republican incumbent. Democrats are still smarting over a TV ad that Chambliss used in his campaign, which included first an image of Osama bin Laden, then one of Cleland.
Cleland, who lost three limbs in Vietnam, doesn’t mention the Chambliss ad in this TV spot for Martin. But the ex-senator does make a sly reference to Chambliss’ lack of military service.
“In times like these, we need people in Washington who’ve served their country,” Cleland says. “Jim Martin served with distinction as an Army officer in Vietnam, and he’ll do the same thing in the U.S. Senate.
Click below to watch.
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Goddard goes up on TV in the 8th District congressional race
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rick Goddard, the Republican challenger to U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall of Macon, has launched himself on TV today with an introductory 30-second spot.
The ad focuses on the retired Air Force general’s 33-year career in the military. Click below to watch.
You can find the script on the jump.
Announcer:
Rick Goddard.
He flew 227 combat missions over Vietnam, was decorated for valor. And, after 33 years, retired as a major general.
From his days in the cockpit to those of his final command, …
…Rick Goddard was sustained by love of family, devotion to country, and a strong faith in God.
Rick Goddard. A leader who will use his conservative values to make Congress work for you.
Rick Goddard:
I’m Rick Goddard and I approve this message.
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Plouffe: Obama campaign shifting Georgia resources to North Carolina
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
David Plouffe, campaign manager for Barack Obama, held a session on Monday with reporters traveling with the Democratic presidential nominee.
The commitment to Georgia, which the Obama campaign has insisted was a battleground state, was one of several topics discussed. The Obama campaign in Georgia released a transcript of the meeting this morning.
Just like the banking industry, Obama troops in Georgia are drifting toward the more friendly territory of North Carolina. Here’s the relevant portion:
Plouffe: We are serious about all of the states we’re in. We are, we are currently not [inaudible] Georgia, that’s correct. But we [inaudible] for over two months. It helped us register, I believe, over 150,000 voters. We are, we’ve got a terrific ground game there…
Questioner No. 1: Are you pulling people out?
Plouffe: We are leaving all of our leadership there, and we’re, in fact just this past weekend, last weekend we registered somewhere over 15 or 20,000 people.
Questioner No. 1: But you’re closing down some of the offices, the field offices…
Plouffe: Not the offices, no.
Questioner No. 2: So what are you, you doing nothing in Georgia?
Plouffe: We’re just not on the air right now.
Questioner No. 2: You’re not on the air?
Plouffe: We’re not on the air.
Questioner No. 1: The people that were there are staying there.
Questioner No. 2: So you said you were leaving leadership…..
Plouffe: We are moving some staff into like North Carolina. But we’re keeping most everybody in Georgia. We are, you know — Montana, the red states that are most often [inaudible] — Montana, North Dakota, Indiana, full speed ahead in all three of them.
Now North Carolina is a state that the Republicans [inaudible], and now they’re on the air there with television ads. So they clearly see the threat. North Carolina is a very real situation, as is Indiana, as is Montana. So we are, we as in terms of the balance, we’re just playing a lot more offense then he is right now.
And that’s important from a ratio perspective. And you heard a lot in the beginning of the year about their desires on places like New Jersey and even California, Washington state, Oregon, and they’re not on the air in any of those states. Nor are we, because right now they’re not in a state of high competitiveness.
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Did the Barack Obama campaign in Georgia just blink?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Los Angeles Times has Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama shifting “some” troops out of Georgia.
The most relevant section of the article, published today, is marked in bold:
If the map [of the U.S.] were a roulette table, Obama would be dropping chips all over.
In Georgia, a state that hasn’t voted for a Democratic presidential candidate in 16 years, Obama maintains a paid staff of more than 100. He has opened more than 30 offices, attracted nearly 5,000 volunteers and registered more than 92,000 new voters there, according to the campaign. A nonpartisan study of TV advertising released at the end of July showed that Obama had aired more than $1.8 million worth of ads in Georgia over the previous seven weeks, compared with nothing for McCain.
McCain has no field office in Georgia, using instead a Florida-based office for the Southeast. Yet he has reason for optimism: An aggregate of public polls compiled by the website Pollster.com shows McCain with a 6-point lead in Georgia.
In a possible suggestion that Obama is shifting his bets, his campaign recently returned its advertisements to the air in several states, after removing them during the recent party conventions. But Obama’s ads have not gone on the air again in Georgia or Alaska.
Plouffe told reporters Monday that the campaign was moving some staff out of Georgia and into North Carolina — a state that offers another illustration of Obama’s expansive view of the map.
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ICYMI: Martin hits the airwaves today
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
After making only sporatic appearances since his victory in the Aug. 5 run-off, Jim Martin, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, goes up on TV today.
The full story by AJC writer Ben Smith can be found here, but here’s the gist:
Democrat Jim Martin’s first television ads for the fall U.S. Senate campaign will begin running Tuesday on five Atlanta broadcast stations.
Martin ordered roughly 2 1/2 hours of broadcast airtime to run a total of 294 commercials through next Tuesday.
The cost is $224,445, a heavy buy for a week’s worth of political advertising.
But the sum pales in comparison to the $2.76 million Martin’s incumbent opponent, Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Moultrie, spent to run ads all the way to Election Day. Chambliss’ ads began airing in late August, according to records kept by the Atlanta broadcast stations.
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