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Can anyone explain why Pugs are now, for the first time, running anti-Obama PAC ads in GA a week before the election? We have had virtually no ads here throughout the campaign. Why now? I'm baffled. They're worried about GA? Is it just a reaction to the voluminous lines at the early voting? GA going for anything with an "R" in front of it is a foregone conclusion. Why are they spending resources here for the first time in the campaign specifically on the Presidential race at this moment?
 
Good question.

My guess is that they've got more cash than they know what to do with, and the media markets in the swing states have become over saturated with campaign ads that they're seeing a negative return on their ad buys. Maybe some of the ads will bleed into northern Florida.

Or it could be a head fake trying to get the Democrats to waste some money in a State they have no chance in ala McCain & Pennsylvania in 2008.
 
Is it SOUTH Georgia? Valdosta, etc.?

If so, it may not be about Georgia...but reaching folks in NORTHERN Florida.
 
Simple. The Romney ads are aimed at those Georgia republicans they are relying on to cross the state line and vote in Florida for a second time. Didn't you know? They do it all the time. Because otherwise its just stupid to waste money in Ga. when they are 52 - 44 Republican according to this map:

http://electoral-vote.com/
 
There are 49 better states to waste money on. They couldn't change a single vote here at this point if they abandoned efforts in every other state and moved the whole campaign here for the duration.

They must be deeply delusional if they think Dems will spend a nickel here to counter or if they think FL isn't sufficiently saturated with ads.

I remain shocked to start seeing fear mongering ads here a week out. This state hates Obama to a degree that couldn't be stoked any more. It's headquarters for racially inspired Republican politics and the morons who respond to it. Even if they're over saturated with extra money, flushing it down the toilet would make as much sense.
 
Nope. I live in metro Atlanta. They're running on the Atlanta stations.
 
Simple. The Romney ads are aimed at those Georgia republicans they are relying on to cross the state line and vote in Florida for a second time.

Makes more sense than anything I can come up with. Your map shows GA as pink. First time I've seen that, too. Heartening as a lib in a goober state, but "Likely?" Mittwit is likely to lie today by that standard.
 
Strange. Could be aimed at creating coat-tails for Romney in the undercards. Or it could be aimed at pumping up the popular vote for Romney, with the idea that if he wins the popular vote and loses the electoral college narrowly they'll have more chance of finding some faithless electors, or of emboldening the Supreme Court to do whatever it takes to make any disputed state come out in their favor. I can't imagine they worry about losing Georgia's electoral college votes. If they lost somewhere like Georgia, it would already be a landslide for Obama, anyway.
 
zzigzzag said:
Nope. I live in metro Atlanta. They're running on the Atlanta stations.
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Okay...another theory. They may be hoping for news coverage OF the ad by stations outside of Atlanta. IOW, they run some attack ad in Georgia...and the national news picks it up and runs it for free for Romney in a story titled "Romney ad in Georgia attacks the President on ____" and thus the ad essentially "gets played" outside of Georgia...and again...for "free".

With CNN based in Atlanta, CNN might pick up the story and run it.
 
zzigzzag said:
There are 49 better states to waste money on. They couldn't change a single vote here at this point if they abandoned efforts in every other state and moved the whole campaign here for the duration.

They must be deeply delusional if they think Dems will spend a nickel here to counter or if they think FL isn't sufficiently saturated with ads.

I remain shocked to start seeing fear mongering ads here a week out. This state hates Obama to a degree that couldn't be stoked any more. It's headquarters for racially inspired Republican politics and the morons who respond to it. Even if they're over saturated with extra money, flushing it down the toilet would make as much sense.
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It could be about turnout. Even if Georgia hates Obama, if most consider their votes wasted, and stay home, that hurts Romney in the popular vote count. A few ads, in a state unaccustomed to presidential ads, and thus not desensitized to them, could have a disproportionate effect, especially if not countered by any ads from the other side. That would at least raise the possibility that Republicans are planning on losing the Electoral College and yet still making Romney president, by way of faithless electors or another coup d'etat in the Supreme Court, and a win in the popular vote would make that easier to sell. Or it could be that they simply want to undermine Obama's ability to get anything done, if he's a person who lost the popular vote. Given the way GW Bush managed to implement a radical right-wing program despite losing the popular vote (major military spending increases, invasion of Iraq, two rounds of upper-class tax cuts), one might hope a popular vote loss for Obama wouldn't weaken his mandate meaningfully. But Democrats are, sadly, more timid than Republicans. Obama is already overly deferential to the Republicans, even in the wake of an overwhelming victory in 2008, so I can only imagine what he'd be like if he knew the other guy was the choice of the majority of Americans.
 
I can't imagine they worry about losing Georgia's electoral college votes.

Me, neither. Mittwit leads by 10 points here last time I checked. What baffles me most is why I've seen two different electoral maps in the past couple of days that show GA turning from bright red to pink.

The ads are generic....not specifically targeted to Georgians in any way. I'd guess they are the same ads that swing states have seen a thousand times. "Be afraid. Be very afraid."

What's up with a 10 point lead turning GA pink on two different maps? I remain baffled. I can't even find a reference to the ads when I search "Republican attack ads in GA". The most recent reference I find is over a year old.

Oh well. Trying to read Republican minds is a fool's pursuit, so I'm not losing sleep over it. The pink thing is all that's really interesting to me.
 
With CNN based in Atlanta, CNN might pick up the story and run it.

Beats me. I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere outside of this thread.
 
The anti-Obama ads in the deep South aren't aimed at the presidential election. Every statewide politician in the South is running against the specter of President Obama. The ads are intended to gin up turnout for the state level elections.
 
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