Posted on 11/27/2017 7:18:59 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Doug Jones and Roy Moore both released new television ads on Monday. But many Alabama voters will see only one of them.
That’s because of the massive disparity in TV ad spending between the two candidates in the Alabama special election to a Senate seat, where Jones, the Democratic candidate, is outspending Moore roughly 7-to-1.
The imbalance is stunning, with just two weeks to go in the campaign: Jones has aired more than 10,000 spots on broadcast TV in Alabama since the primaries, while Moore, the embattled GOP candidate, has run just over 1,000, according to figures compiled by Advertising Analytics.
“I saw probably 40 to 50 Doug Jones ads, and I saw one Roy Moore ad” over the Thanksgiving break, said Daniel Deriso, an aide to Democratic Birmingham Mayor-elect Randall Woodfin.
Fueled by millions of online dollars pouring in to defeat Moore, Jones’ campaign has flooded the airwaves with over $5.6 million of TV ads overall during in the general election campaign. Moore has answered with about $800,000 in ad spending, according to Advertising Analytics.
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I can hardly wait to vote on 12/12....
Oops, my SS teacher once mentioned three and I should have read further before beginning my story.
Its the same thing the RNC did to Cuccinelli in the 2013 VA governors election.
Soros and McConnell. And subverting the count is not a routine operation in Alabama and probably impossible.
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