07.30.2008 2:22 pm
In new ad, Donnelly joins the fray against Koster
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
After watching party rival Jeff Harris make a full-time hobby out of attacking Chris Koster, Margaret Donnelly has finally jumped into the act.
Donnelly — among the three serious Democratic contenders for the party’s attorney general nomination — has a new television spot out, in which she criticizes the erstwhile Republican for his partisan past and current campaign finance techniques.
“You can tell a lot about where a candidate is going by where they’ve been,” the ad says.
The real question though is: Where is this race going? We could be in for a nailbiter next week.
Ms. Donnelly seems to be an honorable person, but I question that when i see attack ads like this. I question her qualifications if her whole advertising campaign will consist of trying to smear the frontrunner, who certainly appears to be far better qualified. Mr. Gibbons must be sitting and chuckling to himself. The last thing he wants to see is Koster in the general election.
What will double D do when she comes in third?
Hey…
I’ve been calling all weekend for Margaret (because, you know, she is the only candidate in the AG’s primary who is not doing any “robocalls”), and I’ve been assigned to call the rural, outstate areas, and she has a TON of support there. I haven’t spoken to one person who has said they are supporting either of the other two candidates, and I have spoken to a lot of people who have said that they are strongly supporting her.
I’ve worked on a lot of campaigns, doing phoning, and people have never hesitated to tell me when they are supporting another candidate than the one I am working for. So, given the responses I have been getting from my PERSONAL contact with voters, I would say that a statement that she doesn’t have enough support outstate is just dead wrong.
From my experience, it seems like people saying “Margaret can’t win outstate” are threatened by Margaret’s viability, and are hoping to influence people’s votes by scare tactics, or trying to create some self-fulfilling prophecy.
I’ve been phoning on my own time, as a volunteer, and I just want to state, for the record, that there are a LOT of people outstate who are strongly for Margaret. And we are calling voters who were previously pegged as “undecided,” not people who have already expressed support for Margaret. Just to nip that critcism in the bud.
http://www.donnelly08.com