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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 peopl ....
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 ....
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 country. 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 campaign. six years ago new castle county government was a mess of corruption and out of control spending. ....