[Zhang Fei]

[no-one there for the most popular man in the world? watch at 10mins. is that the crowd? I know the public weren’t invited, but that may have been because no-one was showing an interest in turning up:]

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Crowd events cost money. I think Biden is reserving his dough for ads. If I had a penny for every single time I saw a Democrat ad, I’d have a few dollars’ worth. That’s how often I’ve seen Democrat ads in the past several weeks. And that’s just on one of ad-supported channels on Roku. I bet broadcast ads are even more pervasive. Trump has bet it all on ground game, and rallies are part of that ground game - get your supporters fired up to show up in the polling booth. Biden’s bet is that ad barrages will sway viewers to vote Democrat. We’ll see which strategy pans out. If Trump wins, look for Dems to expand GOTV and rallies in the next election cycle.

[Salamander]

We live in a DVR nation where most of us zip past commercials anyway.

[catnipman]

“If Trump wins, look for Dems to expand GOTV and rallies in the next election cycle.”

you’d think they would have learned those particular lessons from hilary’s failed campaign which featured little more than a billion dollars of TV ads and a couple of appearance a month in front of 500-600 people ...