Posted on 10/07/2008 4:37:58 PM PDT by Chet 99
As he was opening up a lead over his rival in the polls, Barack Obama was outspending John McCain on television advertising three-to-one, according to the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza.
"From Sept. 30 to Oct. 6, Obama spent more than $20 million on television ads in 17 states including more than $3 million in Pennsylvania and more than $2 million each in Florida, Michigan and Ohio," he writes. "McCain in that same time frame spent just $7.2 million in 15 states. Even when the Republican National Committee's independent expenditure spending in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin is factored in (a total of $5.3 million), Obama still outspent the combined GOP forces by roughly $8 million in the last week alone."
Obama chose to forgo public financing in the general election, opting instead to rely on his unprecedented fundraising machine, which in August brought in more than $67 million. His rival opted for public financing, which meant that he received $84 million to spend from his official nomination at the beginning of September to Election Day. McCain cannot raise additional funds, though the RNC can raise money and advertise on McCain's behalf.
As Cillizza notes, in some of the states where Obama has seen a recent surge in the polls – most notably, Florida and North Carolina – he has massively outspent his Republican rival. In Florida alone, Obama recently outspent McCain on television ads by $2.2 million.
It’s hard to believe that during this time of a “financial crisis,” Hussein has a half a billion dollars to buy his way into the White House.
It should be remarkable that things are this close with the bad economic news and Obama’s massive spending. Hopefully McCain is playing rope-a-dope and will unleash the TV ads in the final weeks when it counts the most.
Obama does seem to have a bottomless pit of cash.
Money in the TOILET...FLUSH, FLUSH, FLUSH!
truth will out that’s the way the good Lord made it........
McCain was such an idiot to take public financing. I am so sick of his boy scout routine vs. Obama who will do or say anything to win.
Good spend it all....ME’S THINKIN SOMEBODIES SCARED!
Axelrod did not look good today...he looked a little disturbed!
Freepers we are doing an awesome job...keep getting the news out their.
Everytime you send an e-mail on the title line you need to put
WHO IS OBAMA? SCAREY.
SO EVEN IF THEY DONT READ IT , THEY HAVE ALREADY GOT THE MESSAGE.
McCain/RNC has enough money. I think they are holding back.
Overadvertising of Obama’s kind reaches a saturation point where it doesn’t help you anymore and it becomes money down the drain.
All that Arab oil money at work for their favorite candidate...and we paid for it at the pump, thanks to the Democrats. How in the world can voters be so ignorant as to vote for the party that gave us $4/gal gas?
I don't think it's a bad decision at all. First, he made the decision when the campaign didn't have money. Second, if we look at the amount of money at hand starting Sept 1 onward, McCain/Palin together with RNC I believe has more money than 0bama/DNC combined. McCain/Palin has more time to campaign, while 0bama & Co. still has to raise money.
No tax payer dollars should be spent to finance political campaigns.
Agreed. McCain and RNC are sitting on alot of cash right now..
All the polls I have seen are within MOE. Why does every article say Obama is pulling away?
Its a symptom of the GOP...
So let's look at this article. In addition to the above states, it also mentioned NC.
So we have spending in FL, OH, IN, VA, NC, MI, PA, WI
Red font indicates 2004 GOP states, blue equals Dem states that same year. Of those states, two (NC, 12 and IN, 21) were won by double digits, and VA was won by 9 points. So those three are very tough hills for the Obamessiah to climb. That leaves five legitimately "up for grab" states. Three blue, two red. Does this sound like an Obama campaign that's running away with this race? Not hardly.
There are some other smaller states like NH, NM, NV and IA. And where is Colorado, supposedly Obama's big win?
Smoke and mirrors.
McCain needs to ramp it up here in PA. The 527’s need to get busy as well. Go Negative. Go Now.
The Marxist Onada is spending because he must.
Considering that early voting/absentee voting is going on now I think it’s time to start getting more ads up on the air. Especially considering the Dem is getting a lot of free advertising thanks to the partisan media.
Right now most voters don’t have a good idea as to who is most at fault for this financial mess. The GOP needs to get the word out, now.
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