Posted by Jed Lewison on Mon Jul 7, 2008 at 4:00 PM Pacific

Going local

Chuck Todd (and I'm sure others) made a good point about the timing of the announcement that Barack Obama would give his convention address at Invesco Field (a story broken by the blogosphere's own DemConWatch): the announcement was timed to blunt the impact of John McCain's visit to Denver today.

As he points out, the local print and tv news coverage will almost certainly be dominated by Obama's decision, and not McCain's event. That's obviously a really big deal -- there's only about 120 days left in the election, and I can't imagine McCain will be back in Denver more than say 10 or maybe 15 more times at most.

So for Obama to have stepped all over one of these trips is significant. It's just another example that the real focus of the Obama campaign is on the local media, and from everything I've seen, he is doing a much better job of going local than is McCain. (I haven't tracked McCain's local coverage as closely as I have Obama's, but when he visited Las Vegas, his TV coverage was disastrous.)

Going local

Chuck Todd (and I'm sure others) made a good point about the timing of the announcement that Barack Obama would give his convention address at Invesco Field (a story broken by the blogosphere's own DemConWatch): the announcement was timed to blunt the impact of John McCain's visit to Denver today.

As he points out, the local print and tv news coverage will almost certainly be dominated by Obama's decision, and not McCain's event. That's obviously a really big deal -- there's only about 120 days left in the election, and I can't imagine McCain will be back in Denver more than say 10 or maybe 15 more times at most.

So for Obama to have stepped all over one of these trips is significant. It's just another example that the real focus of the Obama campaign is on the local media, and from everything I've seen, he is doing a much better job of going local than is McCain. (I haven't tracked McCain's local coverage as closely as I have Obama's, but when he visited Las Vegas, his TV coverage was disastrous.)

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