Ooooh! Big news from "Low-Energy" Jeb! The Bush 2016 campaign has announced it's canceling $3 million in ads that they'd reserved in Iowa and South Carolina, and will spend that money on the ground game in those early states instead.
Be aware that this is campaign and not Super PAC money that's being reallocated. Parasite political consultant Mike Murphy, who is making billions (okay, millions) by running Jeb!'s silly "Right to Rise" group, will (so far) still keep Bush on the airwaves — so don't look for the Freeper-despised "killer of Terri Schiavo" to disappear from television screens completely.
But nevertheless, the ads remain canceled, and we cats are wondering: How much of this shift is a people-powered GOTV strategy, and how much is a tantalizing clue of trouble in Bush World? Is it possible that on top of all the cash they've been burning through, they didn't raise enough money in the soon-to-be-ending fourth quarter?
Donors on the campaign conference call may have been asking about that as well: "Bush fielded several questions and gave an upbeat assessment of the campaign's fundraising performance in the fourth quarter of 2015...though he did not provide an exact figure of how much he had raised."
Hm! Interesting! Well, we won't know any of the answers until January 15, when final-quarter reports are due. But it's fun to think about in the meantime. We cats PURR.
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