democrats on the national level have decided to run this year. it s true wildly different campaigns. in the alaska race scott mcadams is a huge underdog against republican joe miller and probably even against the potential write-in candidacy of lisa murkowski. even in delaware chris koons is in a totally different race with totally different expectations but the campaigns look pretty much exactly the same. here is what it looks like on the republican side in delaware. you have republican candidate christine o donnell just like joe miller touting the endorsements of, again, all sorts of national conservatives. people like south carolina senator jim demitt. former alaska governor sarah palin, the conservative organization the family research council which is based, i think, in michigan and in washington, d.c. also there s conservative commentator eric erickson again who, as best i can tell, lives on cnn. during the republican primary look at this. this is the breakdown of where
democrats and republicans are operating in a media landscape that we have never had before in this country. we have never before had a television network designed to raise money for the candidates of one party. and because of that all politics are not local anymore. democrats are still trying to play that old game. republicans are not. and here is what the impact of that looks like. here is christine o donnell s campaign website right now. after raising a huge chunk of her primary money from out of state after team christine has managed to mobilize all these out of state and out of country supporters, after her fox news only media strategy, look at her fund-raising goal right now. $2.5 million, as you can see. she has already surpassed that. she has already brought in $2.6 million. now let s look at her opponent s website. chris coons. democrat chris coons running in delaware trying to appeal to people who will actually be able to vote for him because he lives in delaware. his goal, $2
conservative candidates it ends up being politically rational to run away from their own local media and only cultivate what they can get at the more than friendly national level. and when i say run away from their local media, i mean literally run away from local media. will you answer some questions really quickly? i m sorry. so you don t have anything to say dean s comments? no answer from angle. sharron you don t have any we re running behind. i m sorry. sharron angle running away from karen griffin, a local reporter for the tv station krnv in reno, nevada. the same thing of course happened in delaware. christine o donnell s campaign turns away local reporters for delaware s news journal at a recent event but let national reporters from the wall street journal and new york times in. the strategy here is clear. democrats may have felt like they had the luxury of choosing
christine o donnell got her money from. 85% roughly of her itemized campaign contributions came from not delaware. only about 15% of her campaign cash came from people who might even consider being able to legally vote for her some day because they live in delaware. as we reported on our website if you go to teamchristine2010.com which appears to be loosely with it, they have affinity groups. affinity groups by state and by foreign kcountry. texas for christine. colorado for christine. new jersey for christine. kansas for christine. there s even an italy for christine. where people can be for christine and give her money but they can t legally vote for her no matter how much they might want to. christine o donnell is not running a delaware campaign. she is running national, even international help christine o donnell get elected campaign. the democrat, on the other hand, is running this type of
in the alaska race scott mcadams is a huge underdog against republican joe miller and probably even against the potential write-in candidacy of lisa murkowski. even in delaware chris coons is in a totally different race with totally different expectations but the campaigns look pretty much exactly the same. here is what it looks like on the republican side in delaware. you have republican candidate christine o donnell just like joe miller touting the endorsements of, again, all sorts of national conservatives. people like south carolina senator jim demint. former alaska governor sarah palin, the conservative organization the family research council which is based, i think, in michigan and in washington, d.c. also there s conservative commentator eric erickson again who, as best i can tell, lives on cnn. during the republican primary look at this. this is the breakdown of where christine o donnell got her money from. 85% roughly of her itemized campaign contributions came from not del