Those media buys aren't cheap..............

[MADem]

Sanders spent $9 per vote in New York. Trump? About 13 cents.
Democrats blasted Empire State airwaves, while GOP pols were largely silent

https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/04/20/19578/sanders-spent-9-vote-new-york-trump-about-13-cents

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders faltered in New York despite outspending front-runner Hillary Clinton on the television and radio airwaves.

Sanders won about 750,000 votes in New York — or 42 percent — while spending more than $6.8 million on TV and radio ads, according to election, according to data provided to the Center for Public Integrity by The Tracking Firm, a nonpartisan media tracking company.

Sanders’ spending spree amounted to about $9.03 per vote.

Clinton, meanwhile, bagged more than 1 million votes while spending about $3.8 million on TV and radio ads — about $3.62 per vote.

Clinton’s victory added to her delegate lead in the Democratic primary, in which she has now won about 25 percent more pledged delegates than Sanders, according to the Associated Press.

Including superdelegates — free agents who may choose to back any candidate — Clinton is now roughly 450 delegates away from clinching the Democratic Party nomination. Sanders would need to secure nearly 1,200 delegates to win the party’s presidential nomination.

Math be damned, Sanders continues pressing on. His campaign is already airing TV ads ahead of the May 3 primary in Indiana, according to data provided to the Center for Public Integrity by Kantar Media/CMAG, an advertising tracking firm.....

[DesertRat]

1. K&R

[Surya Gayatri]

2. Huum, how's that ROI working out, Bernardo?

Sounds like his campaign staff may need a shake-up. Somethin's not workin'.

[MADem]

3. Whoever is making all those ads and negotiating the purchase of airtime is making out like a

bandit--who could that be, I wonder?

[Surya Gayatri]

4. I thought I heard a rumor about some obscenely high salaries,

but, I could be wrong!

[Scuba]

5. Any analysis that does not include super pac spending is flawed.

[dsc]

7. actually that would likely make the numbers worse for Bernie

I know for quite some time GOP packs were running anti Hillary ads which, of course, redound the benefit of Bernie. She does have super pacs that are spending but not at those levels so it would still add more to Bernie's total than to hers.

[Scuba]

8. Bernie has no super pacs. Hillary does. End of discussion.

[Sky Masterson]

9. Mic Drop!

[NurseJackie]

6. Just wait until they get started ...

... it takes a lot of money to compete and fight against the well funded GOP smear machine. I'm so glad that Hillary realizes this and isn't willing to voluntarily cripple her campaign by campaigning with a pre Citizens United mindset.

[Bluenorthwest]

10. No, THIS is cheap media: