groups are spending $55,000 on digital ads to target senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and other gop lawmakers. the president of every town for gun safety releasing a statement, we re unleashing a full power of the grass roots movement and leading most aggressive august spending effort ever to insure that the senate gets the message. the gun control groups are reportedly spending another 385,000 on tv ads, national cable ads, targeting gop lawmakers, mitch mcconnell, florida senator marco rubio and ohio senator rob portman. eric? eric: christina, thank you very much. arthel: gun control is picking up steam on capitol hill as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agree something must be done. after the latest mass shootings, west virginia democratic senator senator joe manchin on sunday morning futures says he is ready to work with the gop to get something own the
we walked through our targets. i explained how we would take the first five to ten million and where that would go and that was the great lake states and we brought in about $20 million in about 90 days and amazingly getting it back out the door. in the ohio house, we had ten different targets we narrowed down to six. mail plans, cable ads, polling, and we targeted 12 to 15 states that would have the most impact on congressional redistricting. in terms of doing that targeting, was it high level political math or was it easy to figure out which of the seats in which of the states would be the place that would be moth worth it to spend your money? the same swing areas that if you re running for president that you re looking at in ohio is the same place where the swing seats are in the legislative and congressional to some extent. to me it was obvious.
luke russert, enjoy. langley high school, not too far away from the district line. take care, sir. terry mcauliffe hasn t trailed in a single public poll since july. ken cuccinelli has been outraised and outspent on the air by a wide margin. mcauliffe outraised him by almost $15 million. not the final number bus the closest we have. outside of the republican governor s association and the state party, cuccinelli only received three checks of $100,000 or more. mcauliffe, orlando, he had 37 different folks that were able to write him checks for $100,000. and the democrat party put every penny to work. 60% of the tv, radio, and cable ads were made by mcauliffe or groups supporting him. virginia s republican attorney general, ken cuccinelli, joins me on phone. you just voted. we showed pictures. you have made health care your you want to make this a referendum on the president s health care law and the last ten
carolina or iowa or any other early primary states showing that kind of result. i should clarify it s 13 percentage points ahead among percentage points ahead among evangelicals in south carolina, which is so startling. anderson, rick santorum is going to go up on the air starting next tuesday in south carolina with a very large ad buy, which he has not done before. he s had some cable ads. and so his campaign is telling me that they believe that s really going to up their visibility. they believe that their values message will resonate a lot more in south carolina than for example it does in new hampshire. don t be knocking cable tv, gloria. thanks very much. we re just less expensive. thanks. ralph reid, thank you. thank you, anderson. one programming note to tell you about. stay with cnn for a special live coverage of the first in the nation new hampshire primary. it starts at 7:00.
carolina or iowa or any other early primary states showing that kind of result. i should clarify it s 13 percentage points ahead among evangelicals in south carolina, which is so startling. anderson, rick santorum is going to go up on the air starting next tuesday in south carolina with a very large ad buy, which he has not done before. he s had some cable ads. and so his campaign is telling me that they believe that s really going to up their visibility. they believe that their values message will resonate a lot more in south carolina than for example it does in new hampshire. don t be knocking cable tv, gloria. thanks very much. we re just less expensive. thanks. ralph reid, thank you. thank you, anderson. one programming note to tell you about. stay with cnn for a special live coverage of the first in the nation new hampshire primary. it starts at 7:00. i don t think it will go as late as iowa.