PHILADELPHIA — If, as has been widely predicted, Barack Obama loses Pennsylvania, it will not be for lack of effort.
Obama is currently spending $2.2 million per week on television here, over twice what Hillary Clinton is spending and an unprecedented ad buy in Pennsylvania, according to Democratic media consultant Neil Oxman, who is not working for a candiadte.
“Nobody has ever spent 2.2 million in this state: not Rendell, not Specter, not Casey, not Santorum, not Bush, not Kerry,” said Oxman, naming the best-funded candidates to run statewide in recent years. “That’s unbelievable.”
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/04/obamas_unpreced.html
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April 9, 2008 at 4:33 pm |
April 9, 2008
WASHINGTON—Elizabeth Edwards put in a plug Wednesday for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s health care plan — possibly the closest any Democratic presidential candidate is likely to get to an endorsement from former rival John Edwards or his wife.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/04/09/elizabeth_edwards_plugs_clinton_plan/
Obama takes aim at knockout blow in Pennsylvania
By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent
Reuters
Wednesday, April 9, 2008; 11:57 AM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Barack Obama is gaining ground on Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania, moving within range of an April 22 upset that could end the hard-fought Democratic presidential race months earlier than expected.
Less than two weeks before their next showdown, opinion polls show Obama cutting Clinton’s once big lead in Pennsylvania to single digits and making gains among some voting blocs that have been her most reliable backers.
An Obama win would be a shocking twist in a Democratic race filled with them, effectively scuttling Clinton’s hopes of overtaking him in the fight for the right to face Republican John McCain in November’s presidential election.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/09/AR2008040901796_pf.html