100 MILLION DOLLARS for ads in New Hampshire - Clinton Group

[Lucinda]

I'd post this in GDP but i'm not up to responding to posts. Not feeling too woofy today but I wanted to share it.
I can't find the original post that mentioned this, or I would have just linked to it.

New Hampshire Flooded By $100 Million in Political Ads
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-02-03/new-hampshire-flooded-by-100-million-in-political-ads


In New Hampshire - tiny little New Hampshire, campaigns spent 100 million dollars for ads. For NH. In a primary.
80 million was spent by the Republicans
That 80 million spent for one primary, is 6 million more than Bernie had raised in total as of Jan 31st.

Bernies Numbers:
https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/candidate.php?cycle=2016&id=N00000528&type=f

Hillary:
https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/candidate.php?id=N00000019

This shows me, that all of us cautioning people that Dems would have to raise serious cash to be competitive, were spot on.

[jmowreader]

1. But don't you know? People LIKE Bernie because he doesn't deal in big money!

...and those people are named Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina...

[Thinkingabout]

2. Buying campaigns with big money, follow the money.

[Dems2002]

3. Who's spent the most?

What's been fascinating this cycle on the Republican side is just how little these ad buys seem to be helping the candidates. Jeb Bush is obviously a case in point, but he isn't the only one.

I don't know if it's due to the prevalence of DVRs, over saturation or that the internet has finally hit the tipping point and become the place where people get the majority of their news (through partisan outlets of their choice).

But when a hundred million dollars gets you basically nothing at all as it did for Jeb Bush, that's a game changer for political consultants. Where do you put all that dough so that it actually does something good for your candidate rather than lining your own pocket? (TV Ads are by far the best way for consultants to make money. Dem consultants typically take commission on Ad buys.)

[yallerdawg]

4. It isn't Hillary Bernie needs to worry about.

They - and we - are on the same side here.

But this is the game he has chosen, and these are the rules.

Part of his 'revolution' is money doesn't influence voters?

Let's hope we don't find out he is wrong in November.