Oh yes the Republicans were outspent. How does one put a price tag on allll the lovely liberal stories and the continuous non-stop smear of evil against Republican by MSM news stories
Are you suggesting that Reagan, Bush 1 and 2 did have the same press?
In 1984 the MSM was all about Reagan drooling.
The press doesn't matter if the candidate has the correct positions and shows strength.
The MSM uses the candidate's weaknesses to defeat them.
No I am not suggesting a difference in press coverage. The amount however was complete saturation, 24/7. What I am saying is that since President Reagan, we have the 'I feel' generations sent on their way into this world with the public educational system of seeing the world under how one 'feels'. These have NO memory of President Reagan, and the numbers of Reagan voters no longer among us is dwindling that voter group into a nonexistence impact.
The 'I feel' generations have their brains on sensory reactions and every exposure they were given to President Bush was a negative feeling. These liberals and all their tentacles preached that Iraq was not involved in terrorism and that OIL was the reason why we invaded. Add that to the Clintons UNIONS, (government and teachers) and the S$ORO$ funded outreaches, gelled the public at large into voting at the local level on how they felt.
The liberals had to get the attention of their base, in Missouri where I live, it was attaching an amendment of a minimum raise increase. Also millions were invested into a salvation program of cloning and that was sold to coverage the state covered health recipients Medicaid.
The 'news' 24/7 was a campaign arm, no matter the point of origin with the continuous drumbeat of Vietnamization of Iraq, President Bush is a liar, Republicans were the party of corruption (sadly there were some names and faces to give that persona).
Now granted these liberals took advantage of presenting President Bush on vacation when he should have been in New Orleans saving 'millions' of people, but cause of their race, he could not be bothered. The whole hurricane and aftermath became the fault of President Bush.
My point is that for Republicans to have countered the mass hysterical media preaching Bush hate 24/7 was not a financially possible endeavor.
These liberals would be in debt for decades in they were required to fund every bad news about Bush/Republicans and the ever streaming nice coverage given to liberals.