Democrats, especially Obama, won campaign ad war
It's well-known that the Democratic presidential hopefuls brought in vastly more campaign cash than their Republican contenders.
Now here comes the latest study showing how they're vastly outspending them, too.
Democratic candidates have spent nearly $135 million on campaign advertising, compared to about $58 million for Republicans, according to the Wisconsin Advertising Project's analysis of data from TNS Media Intelligence/CMAG.
Barack Obama has spent approximately $75 million on TV and other ads, more than the total amount spent by the entire Republican field, while Hillary Clinton has spent more than $46 million, the analysis found.
The study also highlighted the benefits of ad spending, while buttressing the Clinton campaign's argument that she has been winning more of the recent primaries while being outspent dramatically by Obama
In states with nominating contests through Super Tuesday on Feb. 5, the Clinton and Obama campaigns were about equal in the amount of spending on television advertising. In states with primaries from Feb. 9-19 -- when Obama won nine straight contests and won 119 more delegates than Clinton -- he out-advertised Clinton by a ratio of over 3 to 1.
"Fundamental factors matter most in elections and advertising is likely to have fairly modest effects at the margin,¡¨ Ken Goldstein, director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project, said in a statement. "That said, unbalanced flows of paid information in a generally positive free media environment have the greatest potential to move numbers and influence races. This was the environment between February 5 and February 19 and that is what won Barack Obama the Democratic nomination."
In states with primaries after Feb. 19, the Obama campaign has spent twice as much on campaign advertising as the Clinton campaign, but she has won more of those contests.
On the Republican side, Mitt Romney was the top ad spender, with nearly $32 million, but still lost the nomination to John McCain, who spent about $11 million.
In this so-called democracy of yours, why don't you guys just declare that whoever raises most cash becomes President. Why go through this long, messy political campaign farce for more than a year.
After all, that's how you define winners and losers in ALL OTHER spheres of American life.
Everyone needs the money but, it depends on where it comes from. Hillary and McCain went the corporate way and they owe big favors to the corporations. Obama went to the Internet. He does not owe corporate favors.
My vote will go to Obama.
I think when President Obama is elected one will be happy to know how fiscally conservative he really is. It's a shame one has to spend so much money to get elected to high office. But the fact that milions gave millions just goes to show how badly we want to recover our standing in domestic, world and international affairs. Just to get press, you either have to pay for it or become embroiled in a scandal.
http://www.bccmeteorites.com/misconduct-planetary.html
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President John McCain - it doesn't get any sweeter sounding than that. Republicans win again.
Actually, money on campaign ads works only in those states where the pop[ulace is able to read. Thank the Good Lord you can vote with an X or check a name on a voting machine monitor with the assistance of a voting pole helper/assistant or some of people in some of those states where hillary got the majority vote wouldn't be able cast a vote.
In response to "Obama went to the Internet. He does not owe corporate favors."
I would suggest researching this a little more before you make a bold statement as this. With as much money as he is taking in, some has to be coming from corporations.
Barack Obama still takes in oil money - http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-money24apr24,0,2613458.story
By Dan Morain, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
10:45 PM PDT, April 23, 2008
Sen. Barack Obama continued accepting donations from oil company executives and employees last month even as he aired ads in which he stated he took no oil company money, his campaign finance reports show.
Obama has taken at least $263,000 from oil company executives, family members and employees since entering the presidential race last year, including $46,000 last month.
http://www.law.com/jsp/ihc/PubArticleIHC.jsp?id=1199441128022
Obama received his biggest GC contributions from David Drummond of Google Inc. and Michael Fricklas of Viacom Inc.
What this country needs is a pool for all the campaign money to go into - the money is evenly distributed to each candidate, and the best man / woman for the job wins.
It is truly a shame how much money is wasted on politics, when this money has much better places that it could be used.......truly a shame and disgrace to this country.
Obama’s Refusal of Lobbyists’ Money Has its Limits - http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/22/681/
Published on Sunday, April 22, 2007 by Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON - While pledging to turn down donations from lobbyists themselves, Sen. Barack Obama raised more than $1 million in the first three months of his presidential campaign from law firms and companies that have major lobbying operations in the nation’s capital
Soooo, Obama keeps screaming from the rooftops for the next five months that he has always been against the war in Iraq, then in November it is declared by the world to be a V I C T O R Y. What is the 'Son of Dan' (Qauyle) Barack Hussein Obama going to do then. Oh Yeah, this is history in the making.
AngryAmerican - Ever heard of public financing? Also, do you really think a candidate could raise any money at all if the donors knew the money was going to a general fund?
I'm working for an oil company, here in NY, I have donated to Barack, my mother working for an Insurance company has also donated to his campaign, both of us through his web site. So, because we both work for big companies and have donated to his campaign it means that Barack has taken money from those big companies ? It's our money that we've donated (our pay, salary) not the companies money.
If David Drummond of Google Inc and Michael Fricklas of Viacom Inc contributed to his campaign, it doesn't mean that the entire company gave him money, or that he's taken the money from these companies, we're talking here about individual people contributing to his campaign, not big companies, so please, you may not like Barack (that's your right) but don't tell lies...
So Barack Obama has taken $263,000 from people who work for oil companies.
So What? That amount is 1/10th of 1 percent of the money he has raised.
So next March he is in the White House and must decide he is going side with the people who gave him 1/10 of 1% of his contributions or the other 1 million 500,000 of Americans who gave him 99.9% of the money he raised. Do you honestly believe he is going to listen to the 1/10 of 1%?
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