This just one day after yet another poll showed Retread Ted Strickland trailing Rob Portman, and after several weeks of his campaign losing support from key union groups.
Even the liberal blog Daily Kos took notice of the strategy change calling it “a risky move” and also noting:
It makes sense that Strickland would want to move up his schedule, since polls suggest he may be slipping, but the flipside is that his fundraising has been poor and he potentially jeopardizes his ability to air a sufficient number of ads down the stretch this way.
In addition to desperately moving up their ad schedule, an important job was left out from Strickland’s ad, Governor of Ohio. Strickland seems to finally be accepting the litany of reasons to omit his tenure as Governor – losing 350,000 Ohio jobs, draining the rainy day fund to just 89 cents, and ranking 48th in the nation for job creation – just to name a few.
Strickland’s new ad also falls on the same day that shocking new audio surfaced that shows him laughing and joking with supporters about the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
Strickland says:
The death of Scalia saved labor from a terrible decision. And I don’t with anyone ill but, it happened at a good time!
Listen here:
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FULL TRANSCRIPT:
“In three-and-a-half months we’ll make a decision about who occupies the executive branch, what Party controls the Senate, and growing out of those two decisions will be the future of the United States Supreme Court. My friends, a lot of average citizens out there don’t understand the importance of that court. I mean, the death of Scalia saved labor from a terrible decision. And I don’t wish anyone ill, but, it happened at a good time! Because, once that decision had been made it would have been tough to reverse it. And so, everything that we care about – labor rights, voting rights, human rights, environmental policy – everything we care about will be at risk if a Donald Trump and a Republican Senate can refashion that Supreme Court.”