Upcoming contests: Lots of $ in PA
Posted: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 9:16 AM by Mark Murray
PENNSYLVANIA: (April 22): “[A]s of Sunday, the senator from Illinois had spent $3.6 million in the state to Clinton's $1.3 million, according to data compiled by TNS Media Intelligence/Campaign Media Analysis Group,” the Boston Globe reports. “Obama is currently spending an unprecedented $2.2 million per week on television, said Democratic media consultant Neil Oxman, who is not working for a candidate. ‘That's unbelievable,’ Oxman said. Obama is also being helped by nearly $1 million worth of door-to-door canvassing from the Service Employees International Union and a local healthcare union. With her lead in the polls dwindling, Clinton is flooding the state's airwaves with new TV ads.”
The Washington Post profiles Clinton supporter and boy-mayor of Pittsburgh Luke Ravenstahl.
An actual issue campaign about manufacturing jobs that doesn't target a specific candidate in Pennsylvania.
NORTH CAROLINA: (May 6): "State Treasurer Richard Moore, a candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, has also been touting his endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama. In a 60-second radio ad, Moore's campaign focuses on his efforts on the minimum wage, his endorsement of Obama, his plans to increase child care and health benefits and cut property taxes and make community college free. ‘While others waited, Richard Moore helped lead the fight to increase the minimum wage, and we won,’ notes a female narrator. ‘The same Richard Moore was the first Democrat running for governor to endorse Barack Obama for president,’ notes a male narrator."
Michelle Obama was in North Carolina yesterday. She drew more than 5,000 folks to a rally in Raleigh.
NBC/NJ’s Carrie Dann has more on the Raleigh event… Barack Obama hasn’t been to North Carolina’s Triangle region yet, one of the fastest-growing areas in the country, and one chock-full of the young people and minority groups that make up the backbone of his base. But if you’re looking for a preview of what his arrival here will look like, the audience last night at NC State University -- at a crowded, boisterous rally for the candidate’s WIFE -- might be a good indication.
Somewhere upwards of five thousand (yes, thousand) people attended the speech by Michelle Obama at NCSU’s Reynolds Coliseum, filling nearly half of the basketball area where the ACC’s Wolfpack played until 2000. (The women's team still plays there.)
Per Obama spokesman Dan Leistikow, the aspiring First Lady’s largest crowd at a solo rally to date had been an audience of 2,500 on March 13th at Villanova University, making this crowd her biggest ever by a factor of 2.
