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Home Front: Politix
SuperPAC cancels $3M in TV ads for Ted Strickland
2016-09-07
[DAYTONDAILYNEWS] A Senate Democratic political action committee is cancelling three weeks of pro-Ted Strickland commercials scheduled to begin airing Sept. 20.

It’s another sign that national Democrats are losing faith that the former Ohio governor can beat Republican Sen. Rob Portman in the race for U.S. Senate.

Shripal Shah, a front man for Senate Majority PAC, confirmed that the PAC had cancelled roughly $3 million worth of ads scheduled to run in Columbus, Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone,
...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ...
, Dayton and Toledo.
Interesting that they hadn't planned to bother with Cincinnati. While the region is pretty Republican, the city of Cincinnati is very strongly Democrat. On the other hand, we've been seeing anti-Strickland advertising here for months, and the Strickland campaign is running their own ads down here.
The ads were to run Sept. 20 through Oct. 10, but weren’t running for the entirety of the time in all four markets.

Shah said that the PAC still has time reserved from Oct. 11 through Election Day.

"As we’ve said previously, we regularly adjust our spending to maximize resources and make sure we’re in the best possible position to win this November," he said.

A Strickland front man said Strickland was still enthusiastic about his chances.

"There’s still a lot of race left to run, and there’s no one who knows Ohio better or is a stronger grassroots campaigner than Ted Strickland," Strickland’s campaign front man David Bergstein said. "We just recently launched our paid media campaign, the national environment is rapidly deteriorating around Portman, he’s facing a daily firestorm about his continued support for Trump -- and Portman’s small, weak field operation can’t compete with the Ohio Democratic Party’s coordinated field campaign which has hundreds of organizers and volunteers across the state working to elect Ted, Secretary Clinton and Democrats at every level."

The Democratic Senatorial Senate Committee canceled ads for Strickland last week but shifted money to pay for ads already scheduled by the campaign.

In latest polling, Strickland was nine points behind Portman, who has benefited from better fundraising.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Although Portman is preferable to Strickland, he is a do nothing McConnell RINO.
I think the obvious question here is, does this mean Ohio is Trump's?
Posted by: jvalentour   2016-09-07 08:24  

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