Ghaith Abdul-Ahad travels deep into Yemen's radical heartland to investigate how Al Qaeda and affiliated militants have seized areas in southern Yemen and are winning some popular support.
1. Can campaign hold down other spending to allow it to spend additional $17
mil ($120 mil total) on ads?
a. with no primary fight, why not?
b. travel more on official business
2. Can we raise an additional $33 mil for DNC
a. In addition to about $20 mil we have to raise for them already to meet
their budget
b. total to raise for DNC=$50 mil
c. less about $5-$10 mil through better direct mail targeting using Penn's data
d. equals net of about $40-$45 mil to raise
e. almost all soft money (enough mail to cover hard proportion)
f. If we could raise $20-$24 million in six months at $1000 caps, why can't
we raise $45 mil in 12 months with no cap??
3. Can we stop DNC from spending the money on things other than our ads?