Sound Politics: Watch Obama's Speech to See Dino

August 27, 2008

Watch Obama's Speech to See Dino

No joke.

In a unique twist, the Rossi campaign sends out this:

Dino Rossi for Governor 2008 will air its first General Election television ad tomorrow night. The new ad will air for one night only on network and cable news stations statewide before and after Barack Obama's primetime speech at the Democratic National Convention.
"This ad is targeted towards people of all political backgrounds who believe it is time for change in Washington state," said Jill Strait, Rossi spokesperson. "Our campaign welcomes everyone - Republicans, Democrats or Independents -wanting to work in good faith to improve our state. Dino's proven he has the ability to work in a bipartisan fashion to fix some of our most challenging problems and that is something that people from across the political spectrum can get behind."

The ad will be available to view on www.dinorossi.com at 4 pm tomorrow.

Count me as intrigued.

Cross-posted at the Examiner.

Posted by Eric Earling at August 27, 2008 08:36 PM | Email This

Comments

1. I can't wait! I'm almost excited to see Obama speak tomorrow now! Only Dino could possibly make me excited to see Obama speak.

Posted by: Sean on August 27, 2008 09:25 PM

2. Holy cow! This is going to be awesome!

Posted by: jacob on August 27, 2008 09:26 PM

3. Yep, I wasn't going to watch, but maybe I'll watch the beginning and the end. I believe this is being done because maybe somewhere I read that those who are voting for O in this state also like Dino. Makes sense he'd do this, then.

Posted by: Michele on August 27, 2008 09:27 PM

4. I will turn into the deification of Barack Obama by the political left if only to see how his own camp ignorantly paint him into the exact portrayal that the McCain team has been illustrating him as recently in their political ads.

Style over substance only lasts so long before people wise up to it....and Obama's snake oil salespitch to the American electorate is already wearing thin 2 months out from November.

Posted by: Rick D. on August 27, 2008 09:55 PM

5. "Dino's proven he has the ability to work in a bipartisan fashion to fix some of our most challenging problems..."

Only some of our most challenging problems? Which ones isn't he going to tackle? That would be good to know before we vote.

Posted by: Steven Donegal on August 27, 2008 10:09 PM

6. I already know my most challenging problem, keeping Gregoire out of my pocketbook.

I was not successful in this the last 4 years, but I will work like hell in the next few months to register every Dino voter I know and personally pick up their votes, especially in King County.

We have to put her on her Pers 1 Pension!

Posted by: gs on August 27, 2008 10:27 PM

7. Here's a caution about Rossi.

He is supposed to be the fiscally conservative one...the one making good use of available dollars.

Marketing 101 teaches the worst use of advertising dollars is with those who have the least chance of becoming your customers. The cost per lead (in Rossi's case, the cost per vote) will be extraordinarily high given that the vast vast vast majority of viewers will never even consider voting for a republican.

I just want to see him to make wise financial decisions...this doesn't bode well for how he'd spend taxpayer money where he should be focused on biggest bang for the buck.

Still time to pull the ad, if he figures all this out.

Posted by: Caution on August 28, 2008 07:46 AM

8. Caution, you apparently missed the memo where Gregoire has currently outspend Dino on TV advertisements by 2:1 (and she still only won the primary by less than 2%)

Keep in mind Rossi also is only barely trailing her in fundraising. This means Dino has almost as much money to spend as her, but is only spending it at half the rate, and is getting more votes per dollar spent than she is.

If that doesn't scream good economic steward, I don't know what does!

Posted by: Wisdom on August 28, 2008 09:55 AM