Obama’s big ad buy

Obama will buy 1/2-hour ads in primetime on major networks 6 days before the election.  This alone will make opting out of the federal campaign finance system worth it.

More on the money

This post over on The Democratic Strategist analyzes the campaigns’ relative financial states in a bit more detail.  While Obama is on track to far out-raise McCain’s federal election grant, the RNC can obviously continue to fundraise and so far has much more cash on hand than does the DNC.  Matt Compton says that despite [...]

The strategy going forward

The Obama campaign sent out a new video today to supporters, explaining how they plan to win this election.  The bottom line? Victory is totally possible, but it won’t come cheap.  (Conveniently, the video plays right next to an online contribution form.)  It’s an interesting peek into what those campaign strategists do all day.

Showing Obama the money

There it is: Obama raised $66 million in August.  (August!  When everyone is on vacation!)  That’s a record, by a lot, and much more than the (mere) $47 million McCain pulled in.
It looks like the RNC is beating the DNC, so it’s unclear who will have the overall financial advantage, but this at least tells [...]