VA-SEN: NRSC Sinks Nearly $1.5 million Into Ads Blasting Webb
Another big money drop in Virginia: Today the NRSC dropped $1,448,149.00 into the Senate race, virtually all of it on ads targeting Dem Jim Webb, new filings with the Federal Election Commission show. The cash drop comes a day after a new poll showed GOP Senator George Allen with a slim four-point lead over Webb. Meanwhile, national GOP strategists appear to be clinging to hope in Ohio: A Dem strategist in contact with Ohio TV stations tells Election Central that the RNC sank over $700,000 into an ad buy for GOP Senator Mike DeWine (the buy isn't yet on file with the FEC). The strategists adds, however, that national Dems are outgunning that with an Ohio buy topping $1,000,000 this week.
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Man, maybe we should be attacking the GOP firewall in VA and TN instead of spending more in Ohio, etc.
I'd love to see Allen and Corker defeated and put an end to the GOP's Southern Strategy once and for all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
October 24, 2006 8:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gee, I wonder if any of that money went into the latest voting machine snafu. In Falls Church, Alexandria, and Charlottesville (all mainly Democratic) it seems that the machines won't display Jim Webb's full name! As in the "Webb" part And guess what? There is no time to fix it before the election. His name is so long. ---> Longer than George Felix Allen?
Supposedly his name appears normally during the choosing part, but once you press a button to show a summary of how you voted it will only show "James, 'Jim'." Why did they put 'Jim' in there? just to pad the name?
My question is this: If THAT problem exists, how do we know that our Webb vote counts? Ironically, I just visited the voting registration office here in Charlottesville to turn in an absentee ballot application for my daughter, who is away at school.
In Virginia you have to have a valid reason for voting absentee. I asked the guy if being afraid of having your vote hacked is a valid reason.
His answer (this was before I got the news about the Webb name problem) was that our voting machines are the best; none is made by Diebold, and that they all have to be individually programmed and cannot be mass-programmed.
Well, I am losing my confidence in our "WONDERFUL" machines.
Jan Knaus
October 24, 2006 9:24 PM | Reply | Permalink