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September 16, 2008

Jefferson City – For all the attention the Obama campaign has given Missouri, there’s no tangible evidence that it’s paying off.

“It’s time for Claire McCaskill to start being honest with Senator Obama and tell him he simply cannot win Missouri. After a summer of unprecedented spending by the Obama campaign, the polls show that John McCain and Sarah Palin still hold a commanding five or six point lead,” said Tina Hervey, communications director of the Missouri Republican Party. “Only someone caught in a fit of desperation to prove they have not wasted time and money on a losing cause would suggest to the Obama campaign that they increase their media buy.”

A recent revelation that the Obama campaign bought some radio in Missouri is being used as evidence that the Obama campaign has not in fact waived the white flag in Missouri. But anyone who buys that line needs to go back to political campaigning 101. Responding to “dribble” from your opponent in a campaign by buying radio, the cheapest and quickest way to “demonstrate activity” is the epitome of desperation by a failing campaign. If millions of dollars spent on broadcast television ads aren’t moving numbers for you, radio ain’t gonna get it done (no offense to our radio friends). Check out these stories on Obama’s withdrawal (which they always deny) from key states:

http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/state/article808637.ece

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2008/09/14/AR2008091402587.html

Apparently down-ticket Democrats see the writing on the wall – two have already started waving the white flag in St. Charles. The beginning of the end is always hard to swallow but it is clear that Missourians have rejected the tax-and-spend, big government bureaucracy policies of the Democrats.