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.
We need the Swifties (or a group as effective) to go after Obama and expose his radical left background.
Ping to #17 for observations and thoughts
Had to go to Ebay to get my yard signs. The local RNC was out. Sold a couple to neighbors.
Do not forget, Rove has been given the keys to the chest containing a 200 million PAC fund to attack Obama, the democrats and the DNC nationwide. Someone is going down and it smells like a donkey to me.
The artical says he’s spending 2 million for advertizing in FL? I’ll bet it’s at least 10 times that, at least from what I can tell.
In post #17 I meant this to read these smaller states, while not covered in this article about TV ads, are nonetheless still up for grabs. MN, with I think 10 electoral votes, is in this group, too.
Well when his he going to start spending it?
Dude, these folks really do know what they’re doing. I’m quite certain a large portion of the funding has already been allocated, with some held in reserve as the situation changes.
hard to believe, all that plus hundreds of millions in free media and he still is only a few points ahead. what did Evan Thomas say? Kerry’s free media from the Lamestream was worth 15 points? Obama’s has to be worth 20.
Yep!
You can't pull in big crowds like Palin is in Florida and say that this state is in the bag for Obama!
Hockey Pucks and Moosepoop!
Ha, I still think McCain wins Florida BIG TIME!
I don’t think Florida’s completely out of the woods yet, but I expect McCain/Palin to carry the state rather comfortably in the end.
Nobody care about Obama in FL...they are watching the
RAYS!!!! all john needs to do is show one video of Barack and Odinga,those little chubby militant Obama soldiers and then a picture again of Obama not placing his hand over his heart...then show the start of a Baseball game with players and fans with their hands over their heart while they sing the National Anthem.....and ask the question....
Is Obama your next President?
But we have a gift from above.
Sarah Palin.
Hope that’s not sounding sacrilegious.
Been emailing all day long.
The Ayers stuff is especially important and now that I see that Ayers was a supporter of Ward Churchill it makes it all more current here in NY.
What are you talking about? If you don’t think that all of the money being spent here isn’t having an effect you would be wrong.
Don’t attack the messenger.
I am sorry you felt I was attacking you. That was not my intent. Honestly. They are loving the Rays. They are wanting something positive. A break. Now is not a good time for Obama to be negative in Florida.
Its working...but only for his base. the rest have campaign fatigue. Its gonna come down to the last week. I promise you you will see. Sorry again. Peace be with you!
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