Dean Calls a Pause in His Nationwide Ads

[bicentennial_baby]

MANCHESTER, N.H., Jan. 23 —Faced with a drastically changed political environment, Howard Dean's campaign said Friday night that it had scaled back its nationwide advertising until it got a better sense of its standing in the states voting on Feb. 3.

Rather, campaign officials said, they are focusing the bulk of their advertising here in New Hampshire, where they are considering introducing a new spot over the weekend featuring Dr. Dean's wife, Dr. Judith Steinberg Dean.

The re-jiggering of Dr. Dean's advertising strategy comes in response to a sharp reversal of fortunes in the Democratic campaign after Senator John Kerry's victory in the Iowa caucuses on Monday and Dr. Dean's surprising third-place finish.

It also comes as all of the campaigns begin to look more intensively beyond the two states they had focused on so far, New Hampshire and Iowa. Seven more states vote on Feb. 3, including Arizona, Delaware, Missouri, Oklahoma and South Carolina.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/24/politics/campaign/24ADS.html?pagewanted=all

[bicentennial_baby]

1. Kick

:kick:

Dean people, how do you feel about this?

[liberalhistorian]

2. I'm undecided as far as

a candidate, but I think the campaign is doing the right thing. It already has more of a grass-roots organization in almost all of the other states, unlike some of the other candidates, so if Dean wants to keep going he's going to need to do well in NH.