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Topic Started: Sep 6 2008, 04:05 PM (173 Views)
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/us/politics/07strategy.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1220719574-u0KVMJd2qZZZog2S8j/fmA&oref=slogin


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Fresh from the Republican convention, Senator John McCain’s campaign sees evidence that his choice of Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate is energizing conservatives in the battleground of Ohio while improving its chances in Pennsylvania and several Western states that Senator Barack Obama has been counting on.


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Mr. Obama’s campaign intends to focus heavily on the economy, especially in light of the mounting job losses, and to keep up the effort to tie the McCain-Palin ticket to the policies of President Bush. It is banking on holding all the states Senator John Kerry won in 2004 and picking up the additional electoral votes it needs by flipping some combination of Ohio, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Indiana, Iowa and Virginia into the Democratic column.

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In one indication of how Mr. McCain defines the battleground and the message he will emphasize to counter the Democratic strategy, the Republican National Committee recently bought television time in 14 states — including five that Mr. Kerry won last time around — for an advertisement calling Mr. Obama and Congressional Democrats “ready to tax, ready to spend, but not ready to lead.”

That advertisement will be shown in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Missouri, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio and Virginia — all Republican states in 2004 that Mr. Obama is contesting aggressively this time — and Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, Democratic states four years ago that Mr. McCain is trying to win over.


A sign of the shifting battlegrounds can be found in the itineraries of both campaigns. Mr. Obama on Saturday warned voters in Indiana, a state where Democratic presidential candidates seldom plant their flag, to be wary of Republicans promising change.

“Don’t be fooled,” he told several hundred people at the fairgrounds in Terre Haute. “These are the folks who have been in charge.*

*Maybe "inexperienced Sarah" didn't work, s how about "Sarah has been running the country for years."

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Mr. McCain had rallies scheduled on Saturday with Ms. Palin in Colorado and New Mexico, and the campaign exulted in the thousands of people that Mr. McCain’s running mate was drawing to the Colorado event.

A crowd waving American flags and chanting “Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin” had gathered by noon at the airport in Colorado Springs, solid Republican territory, to catch a glimpse of her. Ms. Palin, who had planned to split off from Mr. McCain on Monday, will now travel with him through Tuesday, aides said.

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One indication of the Obama campaign’s priorities can be found in a breakdown of how it is distributing large donations to a special fund-raising account it has set up for state parties. The breakdown, provided by an Obama fund-raiser, shows the campaign funneling money to traditional battlegrounds like Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, but also allocating substantial sums to normally solid Republican states like North Carolina.


Obama aides, while pulling back commercials in Georgia, are mulling new ads in other states that Mr. Bush carried, like Arizona and West Virginia, where the poor economy could help them.
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The Arizona strategy! The bitter guns and God West Virginia strategy!

Soon there will be the Guam strategy.


And the, "maybe we can carry Berlin" strategy.

And the Alaska strategy.

Soon they will find out that there is no winning strategy.

Will they focus on IL, HA, RI, VT, and MA, hoping to carry one?

Obama will carry DC.
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