Kerry launching multistate advertising blitz Wednesday

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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry will start running television ads on Wednesday in all seven of the next states to hold primary contests, becoming the first to buy commercials in delegate-rich and ultra-expensive Missouri, his advisers said Tuesday.

The multistate advertising blitz indicates that Kerry will compete for delegates in Arizona, South Carolina, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Delaware and North Dakota, which hold contests Feb. 3.

Three of his rivals, Wesley Clark, John Edwards and Joe Lieberman, are advertising only in states where they think they have the best chance to pick up the most delegates. And, Howard Dean is in the dark in all of those states as his campaign determines where to play following New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary Tuesday.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/01/27/politics1500EST0693.DTL

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1. sounds like Kerry knows he's gonna storm through NH

A 15-point win here and a reasonably good showing in South Carolina could lock it up for him.