Posted on 07/12/2016 6:48:59 PM PDT by GilGil
Nearly half of voters in a recent survey said they had seen TV ads supporting Donald Trump in the last week.
There’s just one problem: His campaign hasn’t aired any, and his friendly super PACs have run very few.
Meanwhile, 52% of respondents said they had seen an ad promoting Democrat Hillary Clinton—just six percentage points more than the proportion who said they had spotted Trump ads. Mrs. Clinton has aired more than 20,000 TV ad spots since June 8, on top of more than 11,000 aired by her friendly super PAC, according to the Center for Public Integrity, which analyzed Kantar Media/CMAG ad data.
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Amazing accomplishment on Trump's part.
Media brains: Rent free!
Fantastic. It’s all done with mirrors, Hey, Donald?
LOL, the MSM is doing his work for him.
I JUST WATCHED the Indiana rally. I was amazed after the huge mean and young white males that press in after his awesome slaughter of hillary. . This is an army!!
...”and in his ad he said all Mexicans are evil and then he fired Hulk Hogan!”
This is an amazing accomplishment. He is forcing her to literally crack a match to her hundreds of millions and watch them go up in smoke. The donors are now feeling very uneasy while Trump sits back and watches her burn through her cash.
This is a massive competitive advantage for Trump.
True, a stealth campaign that will soon erupt. Burn that cash Hildabeast, burn baby burn.
It was a guy standing in a veterans graveyard and he mentioned Benghazi. There was an NRA symbol on the last screen shoot.
It was an NRA sponsored ad.
Here’s a link:
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/07/watch_nras_first_pro-trump_ad.html
It sounds to me that a lot of people were seeing hillary’s ads and mistaking them for pro-Trump ads. Somehow, that doesn’t strike me as a particularly effective ad strategy. :=)
I have a feeling lots of people saw Hillary’s ads and immediately thought “This woman is nuts. This must be a Trump ad.”
I also think in general that no matter how much Hillary spends, she faces the law of diminishing returns because there are just very few people that are still persuadable about her. Trump, though, has far more upside because he's had everything including the kitchen sink thrown at him and he's still either statistically tied or ahead (and likely FAR ahead in reality). I believe that there are far more people who are persuadable regarding Trump, and many will be persuaded once they see who he surrounds himself with and realize that he's not the bogey man.
lol, you may be right
the NRA does some wonderful adds.... patriotic.... and they do stand with Trump 100%.
The only ad I have seen here in Illinois is that dumb ass Hillary ad that shows pictures of her from 30 or so years ago.
Why is she bothering to run ads in Illinois of all places? Is she that scared of Trump?
This is going to be a very, very rare campaign where both candidates have almost universal name recognition and yet neither is the sitting President.
This is another parallel to the 1968 campaign of former Vice-president Nixon against sitting Vice-president Humphrey.
I think before that you would have to go all the way back to 1908 and the Taft/Bryan election to find another similar election.
Most people have already formed opinions of both candidates, so the lines of the contest are already known. It’s just a matter of turn-out for the base.
The Clintons and other Liberals have been lecturing us on the fact that there is “too much money” in the election process. Trump is proving that you can have a very cost-effective campaign with far less money. Compare what Trump paid out during the primaries to knock off a whole host of Republican candidates and he spent somewhere around $3.5M per knock-out (while Jeb! wasted over $100M fighting Trump). Hillary had to spend tens of millions, if not over a hundred million to knock out a 74 year old, washed up, Independent collectivist socialist who has been a Democrat for only a few months. Trump has spent nearly nothing since he became the presumptive R candidate and is either leading Hillary or tied in most polls, with Hillary spending money like a drunken Washington bureaucrat.
Trump is the new Scarlet Pimpernel
This is really a bizarre phenomenon actually. I live in California, and for some reason I have been thinking I also saw a couple of Trump ads here in the San Francisco Bay Area. And the words “Trump 2016” below while the ad played.
But then I am thinking now, reading this article - I don’t think Trump has run any ads, or if he did that I actually didn’t see any of them. Because even though in my mind I clearly see the portrait of Trump (handsome guy, he is) and the logo “Trump 2016”, and I see the ad as an attack on Hillary - where she is shown as the old hag she is and as a liar - and then I see Trump saying something about supporting our vets ... actually... it never happened.
Bizarre!
This must be a MAGIC moment in our history, because I am seeing campaign ads for Trump THAT DO NOT EVEN EXIST! I think this means something. It means the higher forces ARE ON OUR SIDE AND THE SIDE OF TRUMP!
MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU
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