Renee Ellmers
2010-06-19 - by
Last week was a heckuva week.
On Monday, Al Lytton – Renee Ellmers’ campaign manager – and I sat down, racking our brains to figure out how Renee could raise money over the Internet (to match the million odd dollars Bob Etheridge has sitting in his bank account from special interests), then out of a clear blue sky a video of Bob Etheridge assaulting a college student sailed out across the ether and, fifteen minutes later, without either Al or I lifting a finger Renee Ellmers had a full-fledged Internet fundraising campaign underway with donations rolling in from across the country.
It was the political equivalent of manna from heaven.
And not just financial manna; for years, Bob Etheridge has carefully crafted an image as a diligent, rural, grandfatherly southern Democrat – then in two minutes on a sidewalk in Washington he shattered that image into a thousand pieces and left people in his district wondering, Who is he?
Tuesday Mrs. Ellmers made her own video answering Etheridge and the more people saw of her the more they donated.
Wednesday the Civitas Institute released a poll that sailed across the Internet: 85% of the voters in the 2nd District had seen or heard about the video, Etheridge trailed Mrs. Ellmers 38% to 39%, and Etheridge’s popularity had turned upside down – 40% of the voters had an unfavorable opinion of him while only 25% were favorable.
By the end of the week the number of people following Renee Ellmers’ campaign on Facebook had soared, conservatives from across the country were donating to her campaign every day, and, now, Renee Ellmers may be the only Republican challenger leading an incumbent Democratic Congressman in the country.
Renee Ellmers
2010-06-19/
Last week was a heckuva week.
On Monday, Al Lytton – Renee Ellmers’ campaign manager – and I sat down, racking our brains to figure out how Renee could raise money over the Internet (to match the million odd dollars Bob Etheridge has sitting in his bank account from special interests), then out of a clear blue sky a video of Bob Etheridge assaulting a college student sailed out across the ether and, fifteen minutes later, without either Al or I lifting a finger Renee Ellmers had a full-fledged Internet fundraising campaign underway with donations rolling in from across the country.
It was the political equivalent of manna from heaven.
And not just financial manna; for years, Bob Etheridge has carefully crafted an image as a diligent, rural, grandfatherly southern Democrat – then in two minutes on a sidewalk in Washington he shattered that image into a thousand pieces and left people in his district wondering, Who is he?
Tuesday Mrs. Ellmers made her own video answering Etheridge and the more people saw of her the more they donated.
Wednesday the Civitas Institute released a poll that sailed across the Internet: 85% of the voters in the 2nd District had seen or heard about the video, Etheridge trailed Mrs. Ellmers 38% to 39%, and Etheridge’s popularity had turned upside down – 40% of the voters had an unfavorable opinion of him while only 25% were favorable.
By the end of the week the number of people following Renee Ellmers’ campaign on Facebook had soared, conservatives from across the country were donating to her campaign every day, and, now, Renee Ellmers may be the only Republican challenger leading an incumbent Democratic Congressman in the country.