by Mark Silva
In campaigns, there are ads and there are ads.
And then there is Facebook.
In the underdog campaign of Democrat Creigh Deeds in Virginia, trailing his Republican rival, former state Att'y Gen. Bob McDonnell, in the race for governor in the opinion polls heading into the Nov. 3 election, President Barack Obama has lent his support on several fronts.
Obama has raised money for Deeds, he will campaign for him this afternoon at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., an area with a sizeable African-American population in a state where Obama was the first Democrat to carry a presidential contest since Lyndon Johnson's election in 1964, and the president is stumping on Facebook.
The Democratic National Committee, which has pumped money into Deed's campaign, has launched a Facebook ad targeting millions of Virginia Facebook users, concentrating on voters in Richmond, the Tidewater and Northern Virginia.
The Obama ad is appearing on the Facebook pages of Virginia residents 18 and older and who are Facebook fans of the president, live within 50 miles of Norfolk, Richmond or Fairfax or are attending various Virginia colleges and universities.
Comments
The community-organizer-in-chief won't be able to help Deeds. B.J. Clinton campaigned for him a few weeks ago and a few "dozen" people showed up. People are tired of the tax and spend dems and their showing it.
Paulo
Posted by: Paulo | October 27, 2009 10:57 AM
Paulo: In November 2008 Americans got tired of the "no tax and spend" Republicans and voted to give the Democratic Party control of the White House and Congress. Now, just 8 months later, you're still whining about how the Democrats haven't been able to clean up the mess that the Republicans spent 8 years creating.
Posted by: BC | October 27, 2009 11:25 AM