I work in radio

[titaniumsalute]

and Hillary just dropped a massive amount of ads on all of our radio stations here in Ohio through election day. I'm assuming the same for all swing states as they have already bought all TV.

[MineralMan]

1. Outstanding!

Thanks for letting us know about it!

[Dem2]

2. My TV is becoming unwatchable

Not because of Hillary, but because political ads from both sides make me not want to watch TV. If I want politics, I put that channel on, I don't want it brought to me when I'm trying to relax. I'm glad Hillary is running ads, it's gonna get ugly and Trump is going to be destroyed by ads that test good now, and are released later to put him away. But I still may be tuning out, time to take up knitting or something.

[mercuryblues]

6. DVR is your friend

You may want to subscribe to it, until the election is over.

[bigwillq]

11. I loathe political ads, from any and all parties (nt)

[Coolest Ranger]

41. I live in an area that

is considered a battleground state. NC and VA so you can imagine what my commercials are like

[phylny]

42. VA here - we set the DVR for everything. n/t

[EV_Ares]

43. Know what you are saying. We watch Roku through the campaign season. You don't get the

news immediately I a lot of cases but you basically get the news clips & you can pick the ones you are interested in throughout the day. You get all the networks & CNN if you want you can watch live.

I don't watch any Andre Mitchell or tweety news clips.

Works for us & the best part is w/o the ads.

[mucifer]

3. how about trump? Is his campaign buying ads?

[titaniumsalute]

7. As far as I know...no Trump

There might be some Super PACS or PACS that are pro-Trump but I keep my pulse on the election DOllars pretty close in Ohio. I don't pay much attention beyond since it doesn't impact our group.

There have been Rob Portman ads in small markets but not the big markets in Ohio. Strickland, sadly, is nowhere to be found.

[Hortensis]

24. Oh, really hate to hear that last. Darn!

But thanks for the info on what's happening in Ohio.

[madinmaryland]

32. Hmmm. Here is SW Ohio, I have seen a couple of actual tRump ads that are from him. Mostly they

are PACs or superPacs. As for Strickland, he has been advertising fairly heavily here. About even with Portman.

This is the Dayton market.

[titaniumsalute]

33. I was mainly talking about radio

I've seen Portman and Strickland all over TV here in NE Ohio.

[Sancho]

15. Trump is running ads here in Florida

Hillary is running more. I've actually seen a few by Stein and Johnson.

Hillary is going to win Florida because of immigrants, young voters, and people fed up with Rick Scott (another crooked businessman). 25% of the state was born outside of the US.

I think that even the conservative "older" voters are scared of Trump. There simply aren't enough Archie Bunkers here to win Florida for Trump.

Hillary is in Tampa today. She is targeting young people and hispanics here it looks like to me. The Hillary ads about Trump products made in other countries is a bit strange. Half of Florida used to be those workers in other countries, or are sending money back home to someone working there. Exceptionalism doesn't really resonant here.

Trump ads here are about manufacturing jobs. It makes no sense in Florida to most folks also, since it's not really a manufacturing state.

[RockaFowler]

17. Trump's Florida ads are confusing

That's his fault, though. He has no idea that Florida is different than Ohio is different than Texas is different than North Carolina. Hillary has people on the ground in all of those states.

Now Hillary's ads about being the Solar Power capital of the world makes sense here in Florida. Only Trump would scare monger on false ideas!!!

[Sancho]

18. I agree, the solar ads are good here in Florida...

Especially with the recent amendment about tax deductions for solar installations.

[Hortensis]

26. Congrats on passing that solar amendment in the primary,

and BEST OF LUCK defeating EXTREMELY anti-consumer/pro-greed Florida constitutional amendment that'll be on the ballot in November.

Orlando Sentinel: Solar: 'Yes' in August — but 'no' in November
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/os-ed-edpages-081116-2-20160810-story.html




The Koch Brothers' Dirty War on Solar
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-koch-brothers-dirty-war-on-solar-power-20160211

[calimary]

4. GOOD!

Thanks for the report, titaniumsalute!

[MynameisBlarney]

5. I talked to my cousin in NC

a few weeks ago, and during our rather heated debated on this election, he mentioned that he was being constantly bombarded by pro-Clinton ads on tv and radio.

He couldn't seem to understand why trump didn't have any.

[Blue_Adept]

9. The best thing to say is...

"That's easy; Trump doesn't actually know how to win." That's why he doesn't have any ads up.

[spooky3]

39. He's spending his NC money on ads here in NoVA.

Unless something VERY weird happens, VA is definitely going for HRC.

A loser strategy...

[ffr]

8. I helped. I contributed to her campaign when Carter asked us to.

So some of that I have a stake in...along with helping out locally for the GOTV drive.

Do your part. Volunteer whatever time you can. The more people that do, the more others will see how much support HRC has.

Be enthusiastic too. People love seeing that, especially if they're undecided or undecided about voting.

[Cryptoad]

12. Are Ad times divided out or first come first serve,????

[titaniumsalute]

13. Well kind of neither

Publicly licensed radio and TV stations must air equal time to political candidates. However, the only candidates that we are required by law to take are federal. (President, Senate, House.) We can deny to take political ads on a local level. For example, if a small town in our listening area wants to advertise the candidacy for a mayor we can deny to run any ads (on either side.) However, campaign law states if we run one candidates ads (say the Dem for Mayor) we must give equal time and rate to the other candidate.

[pnwmom]

23. But you don't have to give free airtime to Trump, do you?

[titaniumsalute]

25. We don't give free airtime to anyone

We have to provide the same rate and the same opportunity to each candidate.

In other words...if Hillary buys 50 commercials and pays $100 for each we have to offer Donald Trump the same thing. It is illegal to offer Hillary 50 commercials and tell Donald we will not run any. And it is also illegal if I charged Hillary $100 and Donald $500 per commercial. This rule is in effect from September 9th through election day. It is called the political advertising window.

[pnwmom]

27. Right. But he doesn't have the money to buy as many commercials -- and she was able to get some

at reduced rates because she locked up the airtime months ago.

[titaniumsalute]

29. Whether the candidate can afford the advertising or not isn't our responsibility

As broadcasters we have to OFFER equal time and equal rates. If they can't afford it that is tough shit. The rate that Hillary locked up on TV a long while back MUST be offered to any competitor...for the same price and terms. Period.

Broadcasters have been doing this for decades so the rules are understood. We only allow a candidate to air so many commercials during a certain time period. So for example one per time period 6a-10am Monday through Friday, 10am to 3pm M-F, 3p-7pm M-F, etc. That way if we have other candidates that want to match what others are doing we have the inventory to do it.

[kstewart33]

14. A favor.

Titaniumsalute, can you keep us informed about what's going on in Ohio given its historic importance in presidential elections? IMHO, insights from DUers who are in key states are more important than the frequent crap that we get from cable news networks (e.g., Fox, CNN, and occasionally MSNBC).

[titaniumsalute]

16. I can certainly try...happy to help.

[kstewart33]

20. Good. Thank you! nt

[lark]

19. I haven't heard her on radio in No. FL.

But then I haven't heard any pro Drumpf dreck either, so a net positive for the radio. She's had TV ads running for ages, all the spots highlighting the dangerous person he is. There's 1 anti-HRC ad, but it's truly pathetic. No facts, no figures, no reality, just stupid lies. Yeah right, a Clinton presidency means killing taxes on the working class and a huge job loss. Anyone who was alive during the last Clinton presidency knows that the opposite happened. Only the already sold would pay any attention to it, it's also extremely poorly made. Wonder what friend of his made this, it's so unprofessional and icky?

[titaniumsalute]

21. She starts in Ohio next week. Wait to see if you hear anything in FL. Probably starting the same

[lark]

22. I'll report in to the group if I hear any pro-HRC ads here in Duval County.

Just hope I don't have to keep changing stations to avoid the scummy Drumpf ads like I had to do when Scott was running for his 2nd term. Talk about sickening, he's almost as bad as Drumpf, but not quite. He's not the 100% traitor that Drumpf is.

[OnDoutside]

28. Scumborough was suggesting that Trump was building up this big war chest by not buying ads before

now, so he could plaster the airwaves with Trump ads between now and November.... It will be an interesting one to monitor over the coming weeks.

[napi21]

37. I don't believe that. I think he really believes what he says-"I dion't have to spend millions

on TV ads and all those people in state campaign offices. I can DO IT MYSELF"!

[OnDoutside]

40. It wouldn't be the first time he's lied.

[progressoid]

30. Are you seeing much activity from PACs?

On either side?

[titaniumsalute]

34. TV yes, radio no. Much less than 2012

[SusanCalvin]

31. Good. I'm happy to help pay for it. nt

[AgadorSparticus]

35. Excellent! Blue tide is coming!

[ladym55]

36. Thank you, titaniumsalute

I learned so much from this post.

[tclambert]

38. I saw a Trump TV ad today in Michigan, which he has only about a 26% chance of winning

according to Nate Silver's fivethirtyeight.com website. I said to my wife, "Why's he wasting money in this state, when other states are so much closer?" Then I answered my own question, "Maybe he's so desperate, the only path to winning he can see is to try to swing some states that clearly favor Hillary." Still, he should spend a lot in Florida, Ohio, and North Carolina.

Could be he's just stupid and will squander his campaign resources on states he can't win.