The Schuette campaign here in Michigan is on Fire. Literally.
In fact the campaign is doing so well that ads buys have been cancelled in 2/3 of the state.
Republican gubernatorial nominee Bill SCHUETTE's cash-strapped campaign today cancelled $445,000 in broadcast television ads in every media market in the state outside of Detroit starting Wednesday, MIRS has learned.
Schuette is keeping a $441,000 buy in the Detroit media market in the closing week of the campaign, but his campaign is going dark in Grand Rapids, Flint, Lansing, Marquette and Traverse City.
Now that’s confidence!!!!
oh wait, breaking news
MIRS BREAKING NEWS: Schuette Going Dark Everywhere But Detroit Media Market -
Today's news comes days after the Schuette campaign reported having only $103,000 in cash on hand for the campaign's final two weeks. The Michigan Republican Party (MRP) is still on broadcast TV for Schuette while the Republican Governors Association (RGA) frontloaded nearly all of its $4.7 million in spending on the race.
Oops, they burned through all their money early.
and Schuette’s campaign stays on message...
“Even Bill Schuette is joining Michigan voters in abandoning the Schuette campaign," said Zack POHL, communications director for Democrat Gretchen WHITMER. "While Michiganders across the state are rejecting Schuette's extreme record of filing nine lawsuits to rip health care away from 680,000 Michiganders, they are embracing Whitmer's positive agenda that includes fixing the damn roads, cleaning up our drinking water, and protecting and expanding access to health care.”
or maybe this message
Schuette spokesperson Stu SANDLER said the campaign's policy is not to comment on ad strategy, but it's clear the race is getting closer and Michigan has a history of close races, as is evident with John ENGLER in 1990 and Donald TRUMP in 2016
Well, Schuette’s campaign is so confident that they are not even bothering to man their Headquarters.
www.metrotimes.com/…
Detroit's latest abandoned property: Bill Schuette's campaign office
A stroll past Republican candidate for governor Bill Schuette's Detroit campaign office just a week before the midterm election feels more like a horror film scene than bustling headquarters. In fact, it's downright spooky.
Located in Detroit's North End neighborhood at 9033 Woodward Ave., the neglected office for the Schuette campaign (or "Shoe-Tee" as a sign in the headquarters' window informs) has been far from a torrent of political activity. It came to our attention thanks to political advocate Graham Davis, who has been using Twitter to unveil perhaps one of the most intriguing subplots of the Michigan gubernatorial race yet. ...
Davis first pointed out the curiously dormant and inaccessible headquarters in a Tweet last Wednesday, which has since spurred several followup videos. Each one is absent of a single volunteer.
"Totally empty yet again," Davis says on his Saturday visit. "A perfect day for volunteering. But no one is here."
Well, to wrap up, 7 days out from election day, Schuette’s campaign is on fire(literally), their Detroit headquarters has been empty for 7 days and they cut air time in over 2/3 of the state. Not only that, they are so confident that they are winning that Schuette used over $350,000 of his own money and loaned it to the campaign.
So either Russia has this thing locked down or the polls are the biggest fraud in history.
Whitmer leads Schuette by 12 percentage points, according to an Oct. 25-27 poll of 600 likely voters conducted for The Detroit News and WDIV that showed little change in the race over the past month despite two debates and a cacophony of television attack ads.
Nearly 50 percent of respondents said they would vote for Whitmer, compared with 37.5 percent for Schuette and 4 percent for third-party candidates. Nine percent of respondents were undecided.
Fire...Vote on November 6th or end up with a dumpster fire, literally.