Quote (Pollster @ Aug 22 2016 03:55pm)
I don't know why, but I was actually surprised that his ad was just the same recycled fear-mongering he's been pushing about illegal immigrants and Syrian refugees. I thought for sure that even Trump would have enough consultants(case in point: he has 3 campaign managers simultaneously running the show)who'd know full-on that the Republican nominee, no matter who it is, would need to go big in the first ad by offering economic platitudes to their base and happy talk about tax cuts and cutting regulations, even if all of that in reality only benefits millionaires. That this ad was what they ran surprised even me, they failed another lesson in Campaigns 100.
He also inexplicably didn't microtarget the media buy for this, the media strategy is all wrong for this message. In PA they're running it in Philadelphia and Pitt but not in Wilkes-Barre or Scranton. It's not running in Youngstown or Cleveland but in Cincinnati and Columbus. The NC media markets are completely backwards. There was some reporting from Politico and other outlets that his campaign originally intended by Wednesday night to run an ad with "an economic message," which would have made a lot more sense given which media markets this ad is playing in, but on Thursday his inner circle switched up the plan and decided on this, and then just kept the ad buys the same. That's a disaster given the message they subbed in.
Long story short: Trump failed again. On an epic scale.
I thought they just had Conway and Bannon? Who is the 3rd?
Also, what do you think of the "what do you have to lose" message to blacks? Ron Fournier tweeted that it wasn't a message to African-Americans, but rather a dog whistle to whites.
This post was edited by IceMage on Aug 22 2016 04:04pm