Tomblin vs Maloney

How Maloney Won (0.00 / 0)

Maloney won the primary with saturation TV advertising.  Check the county-by-county results:  Ireland won pretty big in the eastern counties, where it would have been prohibitively expensive to advertise like that....on the DC stations, which that section of the state watches.  Where Maloney was on TV, he won big, through those big ad buys.

Maloney will not have the same kind of ad-buying advantage in the general location.

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by: sweaver @ Thu Jun 30, 2011 at 04:00:24 AM UTC

Maloney is in hiding when it comes to public events (0.00 / 0)

Maloney is nowhere to be seen.  I think he's going to try to avoid any gaffes that tripped up Raese (minimum wage, etc) and just stay quiet in public while spending a ton of his own and outside money to flood the airwaves and people's mailboxes painting Tomblin as a liberal friend of Barack Obama.  It's a ludicrous claim, but it will still be made.

Where is Maloney?  Tomblin and the Dems should start defining Maloney while he waits on the sidelines.  If they wait until August, it may be too late.

In a good conversation everyone speaks.  In a great conversation some even listen.

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by: Wabi-Sabi @ Thu Jun 30, 2011 at 04:32:02 AM UTC

Buyer's remorse coming to W.Va.? (4.00 / 1)

Maloney makes no secret that he wants to be West Virginia's Scott Walker/John Kasich.

As he said in Huntington this week:

"Nationwide, Republican governors are stirring it up everywhere," Maloney said. "I look at what's real. What can we do?"

If, by stirring it up, he means ramming through a massively unpopular agenda and seeing their approval ratings nosedive, then yeah, I guess they are stirring it up.

Walker likely faces a recall next year, Ohio voters now tell pollsters they wish they'd voted for Strickland over Kasich. Elsewhere, we see new GOP governors in Fla. and Mich. with sky-high negatives. Even Gov. Christie Creme in N.J., despite his infatuated admirers in the beltway media, has high negatives.

Buyer's remorse has set in for all of these states. West Virginia can avoid this feeling by not electing this guy to start with.

The teabaggers and Ayn Randers got in due to two factors: voters had no idea just how extreme they would be, and 2. the left didn't turn out to vote due to disappointment with spineless Dems.

Acting Gov. Tomblin can avoid a 2010 scenario in W.Va. by taking Maloney on hard, calling out his extremist agenda and championing the cause of good government that  the GOP seeks to destroy.  

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by: heath_harrison @ Thu Jun 30, 2011 at 09:16:41 AM UTC

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