This guy has a history of bringing forward these grandiose schemes that basically melt into a puddle of water on the floor. |
This is a substantial (advertising) buy. We're already at a point in these three markets where you would expect to be later in the campaign. This is not a symbolic buy -- but a desire to reach voters and move numbers. |
We just decided it wasn't worth taking the heat to try to protect donors. |
We know how much we're going to have to spend. This is a (spending) level we think we can sustain. |
Why would you pick someone who was director of press relations for the most disliked, discredited vice president since Spiro Agnew? |
You do not come back from those depths just by making some shifts here and there and cherry-picking a few issues you think are popular. It just isn't that easy. The notion that you can just snap your fingers after falling from the high 60s to the low 30s, that you can give a speech, propose some infrastructure spending and say some things that you think pull you back to the center is naive in the extreme. |