RE: Political ads with phone numbers

["Paul Hopfgarten" <paul@03038.com>]

And one real interesting take on that is in the NH District 4 Executive
Council Race (Covers Manchester, Derry. L'Derry, Hudson and 7 other towns)
is that race the Dems are running someone named Shannon O'Brien (have yet to
see or hear her, no press releases or campaign appearances) who is using the
EXACT same kind of campaign sign as Shannon O'Brien of MA (purple-yellow,
simply reverse colors, but with the same 'symbol' at the bottom of the
sign).

She (NH's O'Brien) is banking on the "MA resident moving to NH" voters to
check off her name for "Governor's Council" (We do NOT call it that here in
NH) thinking their voting for MA Governor.

I have worked at polls counting write-ins before and I've (sadly) seen
write-ins for Teddy K on our ballots.

Paul Hopfgarten
East Derry NH 03041
paul@03038.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Larry
> Weil
> Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 10:47 AM
> To: Kaimbridge M. GoldChild; B-R-I
> Subject: Re: Political ads with phone numbers
>
>
> At 13:23 +0000 11/3/02, Kaimbridge M. GoldChild wrote:
>
> >  political ads have saturated ALL
> >of the (at least VHF) Boston stations
>
>
> >Of course, the reason should be obvious:  With SE'rn NH's fertile
> >voting audience, combined with the lack of NH VHF stations (only
> >one--WMUR--in contrast to RI's 3 major) and cable carriage, Boston
> >stations make for a buying bonanza.
>
> I think the political consultants here have finally realized that
> most people in Southern NH do not watch or listen to NH media, they
> watch and listen to Boston media.  WMUR's influence is mostly in
> areas from Manchester and north.
>
> It's not uncommon in the past for someone to vote in southern NH and
> then complain to the poll workers that the MA candidates were not on
> the ballot.
> --
> Larry Weil
> Lake Wobegone, NH