Friday, September 12, 2008
News Obama's Georgia spending questioned
Posted by Andisheh Nouraee on Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:51 AM
Jay Cost at RealClearPolitics has a chart listing the Obama campaign's ad spending by state, along side recent poll numbers. The chart is an attempt to gauge if Obama has had any success turning red states blue.
According to Cost, Obama's Georgia's spending was money wasted:
. . . it is hard to justify the expenditures on a state like Georgia. The state's closeness in 1996, Bill Clinton's victory in 1992, and Obama's expectation of enhanced African American turnout probably justified some investment. However, $1.8 million is a lot to lay down on a state that's overwhelmingly favored the GOP in the last two cycles. I'd note that this figure doesn't include the costs of more than 100 paid staffers and 30 field offices.
His name is Cost, so he must know what he's talking about, right?
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