Why does Hillary need an ad buy for Arkansas?

[jefferson_dem]

Shouldn't her home state should be in the bag by now? :shrug:

At link ---> http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/Hillary_Arkansas.html#comments

[tekisui]

1. There are no bags anymore, anywhere.

[EffieBlack]

2. Since she hasn't lived in Arkansas in 15 years, it would be crazy for her NOT to run an ad there

Besides, I'll bet that Obama is going to run ads in Illinois . . .

So, what's your point?

[my3boyz]

6. Illinois is the only state

that Barack is not advertising in.........

[bluerum]

3. It's Hucksterbees home state too.

[UALRBSofL]

17. EWWWW why bring his hate filled name up?

He is well, I can't say because I'm above that but you get the picture.

[bluerum]

25. Sorry - just a side note. The dem nominee HAS to win Arkansas.

[bigtree]

4. keep grasping

nice ad. Thanks for posting. :D

[jefferson_dem]

5. It is a nice ad.

:)

[rodeodance]

14. yes it is

[MethuenProgressive]

7. Where's Obama's ad buy in his home state of Hawaii?

Is Hawaii's most famous private school graduate taking his home state for granted?

[cali]

29. I don't know if Hawaii's most famous Punahou School scholarship

grad is advertising there. Why don't you google to find out?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

8. She isn't all that popular here

at least the folks I talk to and know don't plan to vote for her.

[Thrill]

9. The same reason she is spending a ton of time in California

Their internals are showing too close to call

[rodeodance]

16. Obama sures likes the Hollywood scene. He is still there today.

[suston96]

10. Once more: states in the bag isn't the thing. It's the delegates - get it?

[jefferson_dem]

11. Everyone knows it's not winner take all, silly.

Still, that doesn't explain why Hillary needs a produced *bio* ad to sell herself to her home state voters. Do you honestly think the Clinton Camp is happy about having to go into their pockets for an AR ad buy and make return visits to CA at this stage?

[rodeodance]

15. she needs the bio ad because of all of the years of distortion/dissing. Smart move on her part.

[UALRBSofL]

20. Spot-On

Because the way Huckaberry got in office was the distortion's of Clinton and his PREACHING.

[Herman Munster]

19. it's about delegates

She's trying to get over the magic number of 60% so she can take away delegates from Obama. If she doesn't get over 60%, Obama and her effectively split the delegates in each congressional district. It's a lot easier for her to mine delegates in places like Arkansas, New York, so she's doing that. It's smart.

[THUNDER HANDS]

12. her bag has a hole in it

[rodeodance]

13. slow saturday I see.

[grantcart]

18. an even more interesting question is why Hillary has had to stay in

California while Obama is going state to state to state.

[Herman Munster]

21. California has 20% of the delegates offered on Super Tuesday

It's a lot smarter to spend time there than to waste time in places like Idaho where Obama has gone.

[grantcart]

24. be prepared for an Obama win in California the reason that she is

still here is that there has been a sizeable momentum shift here

http://rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/california/election_2008_california_democratic_presidential_primary

While it is true that 20% of the votes are here she is spending 70% of her time here. Also it is more of a question of how many media markets you can be in and she is just recycling the same ones over and over rather than going to the other 19 states.

Obama will hit 10 states in the same time she has been here trying to stave off a major disaster.

[george_maniakes]

23. i guess same reason shes advertising in arkansas...

trying to get over the 60% hump for extra delegates...obama seems to be betting she cant get over the hump and is scrounging the country for places clinton may have overlooked or isnt pushing as hard for. It really is interesting politics.

[Perky]

22. She is buying in Arkansas? That is very surprising.

She is going to win handidy.


Unless she is conceren about AA support going to Obama and some support going to McCain and Huckabee in an open primary.

[jasmine621]

26. Well, isn't this what Dean said we should do? Or was that only meant that Obama

should be reaching out. There are Republicans in Arkansas too you know.

[Perky]

28. Media polls have her by over 20 points... I wonder if the internals are syaing something different.

[BlackVelvet04]

27. Maybe because she doesn't take the voters for granted? n/t