the obama campaign is spending money in the state, but they ve reduced the amount of their television buy by 40% from where it was in june at a time when they re ramping up in every other battle ground state. they can t pull out without if being a news story. bill: that s the big indicator, where they allot their television money and north carolina, they pretty much think they re not going to win. but they still are, the obama people, competing heavily in florida and virginia. correct? correct. and both sides are spending an enormous amount of money in two very expensive states and in virginia, for example, if you own a tv station in washington, d.c. market, historically you haven t got much in the way of advertising for virginia races. guess what? there is all kinds of television on both sides. bill: ohio obviously a vital swing state. have we seen any movement since the first debate in ohio? yeah. before hand, there were three polls that had obama at one, eight and four. and
had a romney margin of nine. the obama campaign is spending money in the state, but they ve reduced the amount of their television buy by 40% from where it was in june at a time when they re ramping up in every other battle ground state. they can t pull out without if being a news story. bill: that s the big indicator, where they allot their television money and north carolina, they pretty much think they re not going to win. but they still are, the obama people, competing heavily in florida and virginia. correct? correct. and both sides are spending an enormous amount of money in two very expensive states and in virginia, for example, if you own a tv station in washington, d.c. market, historically you haven t got much in the way of advertising for virginia races. guess what? there is all kinds of television on both sides. bill: ohio obviously a vital swing state. have we seen any movement since the first debate in ohio? yeah. before hand, there were three polls that had obama
the obama campaign is spending money in the state, but they ve reduced the amount of their television buy by 40% from where it was in june at a time when they re ramping up in every other battle ground state. they can t pull out without if being a news story. bill: that s the big indicator, where they allot their television money and north carolina, they pretty much think they re not going to win. but they still are, the obama people, competing heavily in florida and virginia. correct? correct. and both sides are spending an enormous amount of money in two very expensive states and in virginia, for example, if you own a tv station in washington, d.c. market, historically you haven t got much in the way of advertising for virginia races. guess what? there is all kinds of television on both sides. bill: ohio obviously a vital swing state. have we seen any movement since the first debate in ohio? yeah. before hand, there were three polls that had obama at one, eight and four. and
kept his promises to virginia. certainly your sort of down ticket race was impacted by the president first being on the ballot and then not. how will the president s re-election in part rely on what s going on at the senate level and more local levels in those virginia races? well, i certainly think you have seen an enormous gender gap open up in virginia and across the country. based on what s going on on the transvaginal ultrasound issue, a gender gap that s significant and seeing important showdowns over the military, a big military state and decision by republicans during the deficit fight last summer to protect millionaires instead of protecting the military. didn t strike a lot of people as right in key parts of virginia. are you looking at an issue of priorities here, and people are getting a sense of what the priorities are and who he is willing to fight for. he brings the kansas spirit into