Obama's Ad Advantage Continues

By: Vaughn Ververs
Topics: Advertising

Barack Obama's battleground state advertising campaign continues to outpace John McCain in big numbers, according to a new analysis by the Nielsen Company. Obama placed 155 percent more TV ads in Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia between October 6th and 26th. That's a 62,022 to 24,273 advantage, according to the analysis.

Obama is hitting Florida very heavily. In that same time period, Obama ran 18,909 ads compared to 5,702 for McCain – a 232 percent difference. Read here> for more numbers and analysis.

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by maggmopp October 28, 2008 3:46 PM EDT: If Obama really wants to help people, perhaps he should put his money where is mounth is and use some of the 603 million he has raised to help food banks and shelters across instead of spending it on an obscene amount of advertising. I think his concept of half hour infomericals is just wrong.; Reply to this comment


by greenfun October 28, 2008 12:38 PM EDT: Hillary Backers Decry Massive Obama Vote Fraud

Monday, October 27, 2008 10:45 AM

By: Kenneth R. Timmerman Article Font Size

With accusations of voter registration fraud swirling as early voting begins in many states, some Hillary Clinton supporters are saying: %u201CI told you so.%u201D

Already in Iowa, the Obama campaign was breaking the rules, busing in supporters from neighboring states to vote illegally in the first contest in the primaries and physically intimidating Hillary supporters, they say.

Obama%u2019s surprisingly strong win in Iowa, which defied all the polls, propelled his upstart candidacy to front-runner status. But Lynette Long, a Hillary supporter from Bethesda, Md., who has a long and respected academic career, believes Obama%u2019s victory in Iowa and in 12 other caucus states was no miracle. %u201CIt was fraud,%u201D she told Newsmax.

Long has spent several months studying the caucus and primary results.

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by Mccarthyaw October 28, 2008 11:55 AM EDT: with a SIX HUNDRED MILLION DOLLAR ad camapaign you could sell water to a fish. Beware he will owe some big favors to some very powerful people.

Posted by wimpleman at 08:27 AM : Oct 28, 200

Yep, the middle class.; Reply to this comment


by greenfun October 28, 2008 3:38 AM EDT: From a BO campaign staffer:

We pay people and organize people to go to all the online sites and %u201Cplay the part of a clinton or mccain supporter who just switched our support for obama%u201D

We do this to stifle your motivation and to destroy your confidence.

We did this the whole primary and it worked.

Sprinkle in mass vote confusion and it becomes bewildering. Most people lose patience and just give up on their support of a candidate and decide to just block out tv, news, websites, etc.

This surprisingly has had a huge suppressing movement and vote turnout issues.

Next, we infiltrate all the blogs and all the youtube videos and overwhelm the voting, the comments, etc. All to continue this appearance of overwhelming world support.; Reply to this comment


by greenfun October 28, 2008 3:35 AM EDT: Remember Bo paid ACORN 832,000 in the primaries.

In caucus after caucus, Obama bused in supporters from out of state, intimidated elderly voters and women, and stole election packets so Hillary supporters couldn%u2019t vote. Thanks to these and other strong-arm tactics, Obama won victories in all but one of the caucuses, even in states such as Maine where Hillary had been leading by double digits in the polls.
http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman
/obama_voter_fraud/2008/10/27/144303.htm
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by palin08o8 October 28, 2008 2:00 AM EDT: Ha! HA! HA! Ha! HA! You poor republicans, Sarah Palin has sold her skins for some TV time.

www.chilitoz.com is reporting that Sarah Palin has signed a deal with PlayBoy Magazine to posed partially exposed in a future release of the famous nudity magazine in exchange, Heffner will run a multi-million dollar anti Obama add a day before the election.; Reply to this comment


by deweyvr October 28, 2008 12:18 AM EDT: CBS left side view of this presidential campaign is a great example of the death of journalism in America. CBS continues to falter and die because it has lost touch with me and I believe in all of America; Reply to this comment


by tawpdawg111 October 27, 2008 11:21 PM EDT: Its time for us dem contributors to shift OUR focus to Franken over Coleman in Minnesota and perhaps, uh, Lunsford over McConnell in Kentucky.

"Polls indicate the race between McConnell and Democrat Bruce Lunsford is tightening."

If we don''t get those sixty Senate seats it may all be for naught.; Reply to this comment


by fbla1805 October 27, 2008 10:48 PM EDT: Sarah Palin loves money. Sell her skin to Playboy, right? Starting off with little, she is now worth $1.2 Million.

She created a new Republican %u201Cno-tax but spend & spread the wealth%u201D model:
no taxes in Alaska (no sales tax, no income tax),
hundreds of millions in "socialist welfare" (including thousand dollar checks to all),
including the %u201CBridge to Nowhere%u201D (flip-flopping for it before she was against it!),
even hiring a D.C. lobbying firm to get millions while small-town mayor of Wasilla (pop. 7,000!),
paying for this %u201Cspreadin of the wealth" by boondoggling taxpayers from the %u201Cother 49%u201D for hundreds of millions (%u201CI spend, you pay!%u201D)
and slyly covering her trail by babbling on about %u201Cgovernment get out of my way%u201D in the debate with Biden!; Reply to this comment


by fbla1805 October 27, 2008 10:47 PM EDT: She''s creative with her wardrobe, too, spendin lavishly on herself:
$4,716.49 on hair and makeup just through September,
$22,800.00 on makeup Oct. 1-15,
$5,102.71 at Bloomingdale%u2019s New York,
$9,447.71 at Macy%u2019s in Minn.,
$49,425.74 at Saks Fifth Avenue in St. Louis and NY
$75,062.63 in a spendin spree at Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis (doggone it, she%u2019s goin upscale on us real fast!).

Then there%u2019s $21,012. for her three daughters%u2019 64 one-way and 12 round-trip commercial flights (paid by the state of Alaska, admirably provin Palin%u2019s credentials as an equal-opportunity biller)!

Republicans used to belittle former Sen. John Edwards%u2019 $400 haircut, but compared to Palin, that%u2019s chump change!; Reply to this comment