DoYou Believe All the Money Is Simply for Some Big, Annoying Ad Buy?

[DemocracyInaction]

Something is just not right...as in "smells". Do you honestly believe these zillions of dollars Mitt and his pacs are raising is for a few weeks of ads in the fall while they let Obama walk all over his face and basically make weak responses as they are doing now? These bastards do not give this kind of money on just wishing to win. I think we cannot even imagine what is going on to make sure this election is bought and democracy finally not able to function so they can let their criminal empires run wild. This will be corruption at its finest.....god help us.

[djean111]

1. I believe the money is going to buy the manipulation

of the votes. Florida redux and writ very large.
That's the only reason I can think of as to why Mitt looks so smug.

[MADem]

2. Yes.

When Shittsy ran for MA governor, he played, on every fucking station, every twenty minutes, this annoying ad that looked like a Disney cartoon of the stupid jerk standing in front of an impossibly green expanse of lawn leading up to an impossibly white "Cape Cod" church with a blue-blue sky and white fluffy clouds above.

The idea was to reassure the "We Hate Mormons" bigots. He spoke soothingly of things people from MA like. It was pure bullshit but he had to have spent many millions getting that message out around the clock

[librechik]

3. yes--they are desperate to buy all the available air time so the Dems can't buy as much

it's ALL about tv ads

[lunatica]

4. We'll find out

A great deal of that money may be coming from places like China too. Romney likes sending jobs to China.

[djean111]

5. I think I discount the ad theory

because I don't really watch much TV, and never listen to political ads.
They make my eyes roll back into my head, and that is very annoying.
It was carefully explained to me that what candidates say when they are running for office doesn't count (regarding Obama, but applies to everyone), and so I pay the ads the same respect that they pay me.

[GoCubsGo]

6. They are going after Congress, too.

They are putting up $800 K or more in districts where the Democratic rep is vulnerable. That's each district. The same with the Senate. Sherrod Brown was on Ed Schultz's radio show this week, talking about the repugs are running this utterly useless turd against him, who, in past years, would lose in a landslide. Yet, they're spending well over a million bucks on negative ads against Brown, which could very well work. The only consolation I have about living in a red state is that I will be spared from the kind of deluge of ads Ohio is in for in the coming months.