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We learn in this LA Times posting that McCain & Palin will "campaign Saturday with McCain in three key states -- Indiana, Colorado and New Mexico -- and she'll deliver his campaign's weekly radio address."
That's nice. I'm in Indiana. I'd like to go. But although I'm signed up for emails from the campaign, this is the first I've heard of it. There's nothing on johnmccain.com that I can find about it. The calender says nothing about it. As to the radio address, I have a radio. I'd like to listen. But although I'm signed up for emails from the campaign, this is the first I've heard of it. There's nothing on johnmccain.com that I can find about it. I follow politics quite closely, and I follow the McCain campaign quite closely. But I have no idea when these broadcasts happen or where to find them.
Does anyone? Seriously, call it a bleg, I have no idea. Enlighten me.
Both of these bring up a wider point: Am I just totally blind, deaf and dumb, or is the McCain campaign failing to communicate this kind of critical information? If people who follow this stuff closely don't know when it's happening, how are people who don't follow it so closely supposed to find out? According to the calender on johnmccain.com, McCain is campaigning nowhere with no events for the rest of September; perhaps so, but I find that hard to believe.
What's going on in the campaign's heads? There's the old military saw that amateurs speak of tactics while professionals speak of logistics, and there's a lot of truth in that. Events require people, and people require at least notice and preferably notice advance enough to plan around. When Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama came to town, their campaigns sent emails several days in advance. I realize that calenders change, sometimes on short notice, but the changability of the calender is no excuse for not putting that information out there. Mark events that aren't set in stone with a "T" for "tentative" if you have to, but give us something to work with.
Please understand that I will be thrilled and delighted if the first comment is "you're an idiot, this is all available at _______.com." I'd rather be embarassed for being out of the loop than be confirmed in the suspicion that there isn't a loop.
I guess McCain is relying on
I guess McCain is relying on old media to get the word out. Seems like it's working.
He doesn't have to spend a lot of maney to get his commercials aired. He just tells the media that he's got a new ad, and they run it for him, calling it news.