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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, $250,000. 1/10. 1/10 of what christine
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 delaware.
money through fox news. that's what they're telling each other. what happens to them? 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, $250,000. 1/10. 1/10 of what christine o'donnell's raising. used to be it made sense to pick a local strategy for a candidate with strong local credentials. now if that candidate is a democrat, swamped. swamped by national conservative money. if democrats are not messaging and trying to compete at a national level simply in order to raise money, it does not matter how good their messaging is locally. they will get buried in conservative money. buried in national conservative money that they raise nationally and have no shame about. all politics used to be local. democrats want it to still be local. those times have passed. this year democrats compete nationally or they do not compete at all. break our depe. what they're really doing is putting our security at risk. my big brother went to iraq to keep us safe.
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 whether or not to run local campaigns or national campaigns for this year's elections but top tier republicans are not bothering to compete on the local level anymore.
>> the other thing about the christine o'donnell situation is, yes, she's only running in delaware, but the day after she had almost $1 million. a lot of that money came from out of state. so that national presence, especially for someone like her, who didn't have that high of a profile, essentially came out of nowhere to win this race as a tea party candidate, becomes very important. have we even seen the tip of the iceberg in terms of using social media for fund-raising? >> no. i think -- listen, people are going to look back at the obama campaign and recognize that was the calling-out party to this. we'll see a lot of people in the midterms play this angle. i'm hearing a lot of buzz of different campaigns. again, facebook and twitter are at the top of people's lips. how about youtube live now is in the game. there's all these geo location things like facebook. there's a lot of -- >> i don't even know what you're talking about. >> i know that, but in 2000 -- before the obama election, when i was in the trenches in '06 and
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