Posted on 03/24/2010 7:40:27 AM PDT by SmithL
GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman has swamped California with an unprecedented tsunami of ads, not only on radio and on TV shows like "American Idol" - but through a cable TV marketing gimmick that allows viewers to order her bumper stickers using their remote controls.
Her campaign has spent $46 million so far, according to campaign finance reports filed this week, the most ever by a candidate for a statewide primary in California.
The sheer volume of her efforts, which premiered with positive spots to introduce her "brand" but have lately been characterized by negative attacks on her GOP opponent, state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, raises a new question: Is this overkill?
"You can't swing a dead cat in California without hitting a Meg Whitman ad. They're everywhere - in every medium," said political strategist Patrick Dorinson of Sacramento. "But you wonder if, at some point, people will say: I've had enough. Is this going to go on for three more months?"
Since Jan. 1, Whitman has spent more than $20 million on TV and radio ads while her total campaign spending this year has reached $27 million.
That dwarfs the $142,000 that Attorney General Jerry Brown, a Democrat, has spent this year on his campaign for governor, with $14 million on hand; and Poizner has spent $3.1 million since Jan. 1, with $1.8 million of that on ads. His campaign has $14.8 million in the bank.
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Funny how the MSM never:
A) Calls a Democrat ad an “attack ad”
B) Ominously warns that any Democrat “attack ad” could backfire.
Why is that?
Californians are in for a world of sh*t no matter who wins.
Hit dog will holler.
Well they must be very effective if the chronicle is whining about it.
Cindie
Carla had no problems with the SEIU and Nurses Union attack ads trashing Whitman.
I can't wait for this left wing rag to close.
Ah so!!! The famous “it could backfire” ploy from the MSM!!!
Brown will be stopped period.
I stand by my statement. Neither Meg Whitman nor Carly Fiorina have any business near the apparatus of the state. Those two are a good example of why we are in our presnt circumstances.
Whitman is needed to veto all the left wing nutter
bills coming from Mark Leno of San Fran .
the only good thing about Arnold is that he has stopped all the radical left wing bills .
Jerry Brown was the person who put the radical left in charge and gave the SEIU, and other radical unions the power in the Capital during his last disastrous stint.
If Moonbeam gets back in power then its all over.
No doubt. But it's either that - the apocalypse via the leftist nutters or the death of a thousand cuts from Vichy Republican scum like Whitman and Fiorina.
That the type of logic that got us Obama .
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