Obama in Texas?
Okay, I don’t think we should shoot off the fireworks yet, but maybe we should start looking for a lighter.
Regular customer Dawn just sent me a startling email that she saw an Obama teevee ad on the History Channel. In Texas.
Texas.
We never see Obama ads in Texas. Hell, we didn’t even know he was running for President until he won.
There’s a plausible explanation. Our Governor is fixing to hackoff 6.1 million people in addition to a lot of hospitals and doctors, county and local officials, and small business owners. See below.
And there’s this.
Over the period of April 12 – July 1, 662 respondents to the Daily Kos/SEIU/PPP State of the Nation poll were reached at a Texas phone number. Among these respondents, Obama and Romney were tied 47-47.
Okay, I know, I know. This ain’t a definitive poll. But, even Republicans in Texas will tell you that saddled with their crazy platform, a national candidate who will never win any popularity contests, the infighting in the party made clearer by the Cruz/Dewhurst runoff, and did I mention that they have crazy stuff in their platform, that they are not blooming well.
A few well-placed Obama ads might not win the state but it’ll go a long way in helping congressional candidates and win back enough state house seats to have a fighting chance.
So, if any of you Texans see any Obama ads, let us know!
Thanks to Dawn and Elsie for the heads-up.
There was an Obama ad on MSNBC this morning. It was the outsourcing vs. insourcing ad. I remember hearing President Obama saying that He approved this message.
1I’ve been seeing Obama ads here for the last few weeks and was surprised to see one. They’re mostly on MSNBC, but I know that wasn’t the only channel where I’ve seen them. I also saw the one Kyle referred to.
Hey Dems, more of this, please.
2That’s the same ad I saw. Glad to know it wasn’t the tekillya.
3Looks like your new chair of the Democratic party in Texas is getting some love!
4Plenty of them on here in MA (unlike WA). I have to say, they are very good ads. Not nasty at all. Just brutally honest. And those pollsters never called me (I still have my TX cell five years later)…so I didn’t skew the numbers!
5The first fireworks Bubba needs to set off is that large bottle rocket right up Perry’s…. I won’t say the word, but you know, that place where Perry keeps his head.
6Just saw one up here in the Panhandle a couple of nights ago. Frankly, I was shocked.
7You know how people say, “I hate to say it, but I told you so?” Well, that’s not me.
I don’t hate to say it.
I told you so.
I’ve been sitting out here in the hot sun working on a novel (writing, not reading) all afternoon and am so not into going back and looking for it, but I asked a couple of months ago if Texas might could be a little closer than people were thinking. I of all people know that the plural of “anecdote” is not “data,” but from here and elsewhere I’ve been hearing that the Mitt Mormoney “meh”-factor is bigger amongst evangelicals than has been reported on.
Couple that with the fact that whites are no longer a majority in Texas.
Couple THAT with the amazing insurgency that JJ and Bubba are helping to spark among Dems with Hinojosa at the helm.
And wrap all THAT up like a delicous Democratic fajita with the TX-GOP Platform of Craziness like a Face-of-Jesus Tortilla.
Well, I’ll tell you, my Spidey-sense is tingling. If I were 20 years younger and/or not afraid that daMrs would get half my stuff, I’d be on a bus headed down there.
Seriously, folks, strike now, strike hard, strike true. Even if you don’t win Texas, you can make it a big fight. That was a flank the GOP assumed was secure, but IT’S NOT! Force them to spend resources there that they wouldn’t otherwise have spent, and you make the President’s re-election all that much more secure.
WIN? Oh, baby, the ballgame would be over. We’d have hegemony for the next 20 years if Texas came back from the Dark Side.
2008 was big because the Republicans were on defense. We played the entire second half on their side of the fifty yard line. If we’re playing 2012 in Texas, that’s inside their red zone.
It’s not just the Eyes of Texas upon you,now. It’s the eyes of the world.
Make us proud.
8I agree with daChipster: make Rmoney spend a bunch of those $$$ he’s just collected from those ignorant rich people in the Hamptons in Texas rather than in Ohio.
9I’ve seen lots of Obama ads, but on cable channels because I very rarely watch the local channels. I was surprised. What also surprises me is that I have NOT seen one Romney ad anywhere. I guess, as is noted above, they don’t see any point in spending money where they feel they’ve won already.
10I’m just an isolated (youngish, mind you) widow-woman lost in Beaumont TX, but I’ve lived as far west as Hawaii and as far east as Massachusetts. I’ve even lived in Alabama and Nebraska. (Nowhere did my vote make an appreciable difference. Either everyone else voted the same as I, or no one did!) I’m just feeling that there is a chance here to begin to make a difference. The crazy platform and Rick Perry embarrassing everyone (even my two right-leaning sisters look like they are sucking lemons when his name is mentioned), could just send us some of those who haven’t lost all brain cells. I think we can chalk off East Texas, but the rest of Texas is really big! daChipster, you give me hope!
Do it! I was stunned when I saw the poll earlier and thought if it
11helped even a little to get the Dems out in full force—it would be grand–spend that Hampton ill-gotten $$$– waste it!!!
Yup, I think we saw the same Insourcing vs. Outsourcing ad last night on the History Channel, too. We were shocked. A sign of the purpling of Texas?
12I promise to report any Obama advertising I see on the DFW teevee stations, Meantime there’s a neighbor I dont know with seven Ted Cruz signs: two ginormous ones inside bay windows and five along the hedge. I’d like to knock on his door and ask him if I can help him in some way. I am sympathetic to the victims of mental illness. And I want those signs. Wednesday is bulk trash day.
13I’ve been seeing that insourcing vs outsourcing ad for about a week now. It might have been on the History Channel, but I can’t remember what channel it’s been on. I’ve just been happy to see it. Even my 87-year-old mother likes it and has decided she really likes the President. She voted for McCain last time, but is in full-throated support of Obama now.
14I heard on MSNBC this morning that President Obama is spending more money now than Romney’s campaign in order to “identify” Romney before Romney identifies himself. This seems to be working; Romney probably can’t decide which Romney he wants to identify.
15I saw the same Obama ad on the history channel. I guess they got a price on an ad to be broadcast nationally.
TV ads for Democrats in DFW are rare.
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