Romney Not Advertising In Super Tuesday States

By: Brian Montopoli
Topics: Mitt Romney

CBS News has learned that the Mitt Romney campaign has yet to purchase advertisements in the states where voters go to the polls on Feb. 5th, Super Tuesday. Romney, who has already sunk millions of dollars of his own money, is coming off a disappointing second-place finish in Florida.

According to the Associated Press, citing officials with knowledge of internal discussions, the Romney campaign "was not attempting to purchase television advertising time in any of the states on the Super Tuesday calendar." The AP says Romney plans to campaign in California and the other Super Tuesday states.

Brian Montopoli
Brian Montopoli is the senior political reporter at CBSNews.com.
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by allenfuller-2009 January 31, 2008 1:45 PM EST: It''s time for Romney to drop out of this race and endorse the most consistent conservative remaining... Huckabee.

Romney is being propped up in the media, but a serious analysis of the electoral votes shows he has NO chance of winning the nomination at this point. He won''t play strong enough in the South, and McCain pretty much has much of the West coast wrapped up.

If Romney would get behind Huckabee, who is more consistently conservative than he, we could have a chance to stop McCain AND get a conservative we could be proud of, who truly represents the PEOPLE instead of the entrenched powers, into the White House.; Reply to this comment


by rflouisiana January 31, 2008 9:45 AM EST: So let me get this straight... Ron Paul got 3% of the Republican vote in Florida, therefore he gets 3% of the air-time in the national debate. What am I missing? Would anyone be so kind as to reply to my post & tell me a legitimate reason why Ron Paul does not deserve to have his voice heard equally with the other candidates. According to this line of reasoning, the vote count in the state of Florida is officially the rod by which the candidates are held up to measure for the rest of the country. People, is this not censorship to the nth degree?; Reply to this comment


by grassboots January 31, 2008 7:37 AM EST: Perhaps Romney should advertise what he told CNN''s Roland Martin tonight when asked about his support of a ban on gay marriage:

I have always supported "Gay Rights"; Reply to this comment


by krisd999-2009 January 31, 2008 5:39 AM EST: Ron Paul is the only one who is advertising in Minnesota-the convention state. Can the $32 million he''s raised counter the hundreds of millions of free time the liberal media has given the others? Will the republican nominee be picked by the media? Just watch what they do to him in the sham "debates". It''s fear to speak his name. When will republicans wake up?; Reply to this comment