Romney Rally packs the house!
This. RT @mikiebarb: This rally is a singular moment in the Romney campaign.
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Garrett Haake (@GarrettNBCNews) November 06, 2012After 2.5 minute long ear splitting ovation for Romney, he tries to start speaking and they erupt again
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Jon Ward (@jonward11) November 06, 2012We're beyond two minutes of a sustained standing ovation for Romneys after introduction from Kid Rock in Manchester
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Garrett Haake (@GarrettNBCNews) November 06, 2012
We blogged the comedy of the Obama campaign previously claiming their small crowds were on purpose. Now the press are saying even the small Obama crowds are likely an exaggeration:
And that 6K is generousRT @zekejmiller Worth noting, Obama drew a crowd of 8,000 here in September, 2008. just 6,000 here today.
— jmartpolitico (@jmartpolitico) October 18, 2012
Obama is rallying today in Manchester, New Hampshire.
This photo was taking 90 minutes prior to the start of the Manchester event:
UPDATE: Thanks to the nonsensical troll in the comments I looked up yesterday’s crowd size. The Boston Globe reported on the massive outpouring:
Romney and Ryan, appearing together for the first time in a week, sustained their criticism Monday, leveling new claims of duplicity in Obama’s TV ads before about 3000 friendly people in Manchester.
The details are now up for the big town hall reuniting the Republican ticket in the state America’s Comeback Team was supposed to start things off:
When: August 20, 2012 – 8:00am
Where: Saint Anselm College, 100 Saint Anslem Drive , Manchester, NH 03102
You’re Invited to a Victory Town Hall Meeting with Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and the Republican Team!
Doors Open 8:00 AM and the event begins at 10:00 AM
To RSVP and get your ticket, please click here.
Parking is limited so please try and carpool.
Mitt Romney kicks off his “Every Town Counts” tour tomorrow in the state and at the farm he launched his Presidential campaign barely over twelve months ago. According to the Associated Press, Both campaigns are flooding the tiny state with money and attention, suggesting more may be at stake than four electoral votes in an election each side expects will be a nail-biter to the end:
Perhaps no presidential battleground will test the leanings of critical independent voters more than the “Live Free or Die” state. Former Massachusetts Gov. Romney’s ties run deep in a place that has vacillated between Republicans and Democrats in recent years. “Gov. Romney has a very special relationship with New Hampshire,” says Jim Merrill, a top New Hampshire-based strategist for both of Romney’s presidential campaigns. Despite the familiarity, there is little doubt that Romney — sometimes dubbed an “adopted New Hampshire son” — faces a steep climb.
Advantage Obama:
Recent polls give Obama an early edge. Romney also is just beginning to awaken a local campaign apparatus that’s largely been dormant for months. Obama’s team, meanwhile, activated its grassroots network long ago. The walls were still bare in parts of Romney’s state headquarters last week, the same day Obama’s team hosted nearly two dozen house parties across the state. Scores of Democratic volunteers gathered at strangers’ kitchen tables, on front porches and in sewing rooms to make calls, recruit more volunteers and attack their Republican opponent.
Strong local economy:
New Hampshire’s unemployment rate stands at just 5 percent, among the best in the country, compared to the nationwide average of 8.2 percent. Romney argues that any economic success is in spite of — not because of — Obama’s leadership. That’s an argument Republicans are making in other swing states with below average unemployment rates — Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio and Colorado among them.
Campaign ad spending has had a decided concentration among four states thus far: Virginia, Ohio, Iowa, and North Carolina. The Romney campaign has announced expansion into Colorado, New Hampshire and Nevada with $411,00 of media buys:
The Romney campaign on Friday added Colorado, New Hampshire and Nevada to the states where it is running television commercials, according to a media buyer who monitors political spending. Its purchases were small and for just four days, with the new round of advertisements starting on Saturday — $216,000 in Colorado (Denver, Colorado Springs and Grand Junction); $82,000 in New Hampshire (Manchester only); $113,000 in Nevada (Las Vegas and Reno).
Importantly, many of these markets (Denver, Las Vegas and Reno) are Democrat strongholds where Romney must improve on John McCain’s dismal 2008 performance if he expects to carry these states. The comparatively small media buys are consistent with a campaign’s entry into new markets testing the impact of new ads before making a full commitment.
The Obama campaign, on the other hand, plans to spend an almost identical $415,000 in those three states and $2 million across a total of 7 states:
The Obama campaign pumped an additional $2 million into swing-state TV ads yesterday, for the period spanning June 9 and June 22, a media-tracking source tells me. The campaign put down $405,000 in North Carolina, $327,000 in Florida, $172,000 in Nevada, $174,000 in Colorado, $161,000 in Virginia, $118,000 in Pennsylvania and $80,000 in New Hampshire. The exact dates of the TV flights vary from state to state, but in each case it covers 30-second broadcast and cable advertising.
For both campaigns, the most heavily targeted state is Ohio, where Obama has spent $8.5 million on TV to Romney’s $2.7 million. The greatest disparity between the two campaigns in Florida, where Obama has spent $7.3 million and Romney has not yet purchased general-election airtime.
