With little more than a week to go before the primary, Chris Reilly’s campaign is airing a new advertisement touting him as “the true conservative for Congress.”
Reilly is running against state Rep. Scott Perry, attorney Sean Summers, and four other Republicans for the fourth district seat that will be vacated by retiring Rep. Todd Platts.
The home movie-style ad refers to Reilly’s campaign promises as “The Reilly Plan,” pledging to “repeal Obamacare completely, cut government spending just as he did as County Commissioner… oppose the Obama agenda and jumpstart our economy.”
“We need a plan,” the advertisement concluded. “We need Chris Reilly.”
The ad began running Monday morning. Perry has been on TV since Tuesday night last week.
But Reilly has had help. Sen. Pat Toomey’s PAC, Citizens for Prosperity in America, had also previously released an ad of its own in support of Reilly’s campaign.
Toomey’s ad apparently moved the numbers.
A poll released on Saturday tby the York Dispatch showed Reilly with a slight lead on Perry among voters in the fourth district. Voters who have decided on a candidate, that is.
The poll reported that only 93 of the 214 Republican respondents had chosen a candidate, with 121, or 56.5 percent, still undecided.Registered members of the GOP favored Reilly by just 0.3 percent above the poll’s +/-4.9 percent margin of error.Reilly captured 38 voters, or 17.8 percent, to Perry’s 27 voters, or 12.6 percent.
“Chris Reilly is clearly in first place, but when you apply the margin of error to it, you say, ‘Whoops, Chris and Scott Perry could be very much parallel,'” said David Polk, a principal partner in Polk-Lepson Research Group, which conducted the poll. “There’s no way to look at these results and try to predict who’s going to be the winner.”
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What an unappealing ad and a big waste of Pat Toomey’s money.