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Senior Dems Concerned That Clinton Is Spending Millions on Ads That Aren’t Working
Heatstreet ^ | 22 Jul 2016 | Emily Zanotti

Posted on 07/22/2016 9:02:21 AM PDT by mandaladon

Some Democrats are privately worrying that Hillary Clinton has been spending too much money and seeing too few results.

Clinton, who has way more cash on hand than Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, has been outspending the New York real estate mogul at a rate of 15-1 but has seen her lead shrink to single digits in certain key states.

According to The Hill, senior Democrats met with Clinton in DC on Monday and mentioned a recent Florida poll that showed Trump pulling ahead in the Sunshine State. They questioned whether Clinton was really running her campaign effectively, having spent about $47 million in television ads.

Trump himself has spent next to nothing. A few SuperPACs and the NRA have run around $3 million in anti-Clinton ads, focusing only on her position on the Second Amendment.

The good news for Clinton is that the worrywarts were a minority, even among the professional strategists in the meeting, according to one source at the table. That source said the concern was largely voiced by “bed-wetters.”

But Clinton needs to start pulling ahead of Trump if she intends to sustain the lead all the way through November. Trump will likely get a polling boost from his convention speech, and while some Republicans are splitting off the party in protest, led by Ted Cruz, who is trying to make them feel better about their decision to abstain, Trump supporters are feeling stronger than ever.

(Excerpt) Read more at heatst.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016demprimary; ads; dncstrategy; hillary2016; polls; trump
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To: kingu

“Dixie mafia”?


41 posted on 07/22/2016 9:18:13 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: joshua c

Mitt did the same thing in 2012.

Spammed the airwaves with campaign ads from the summer through the fall.

Oh yeah - can you guess what happened? He lost.


42 posted on 07/22/2016 9:20:08 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: mandaladon

Yeb! redux.

5.56mm


43 posted on 07/22/2016 9:20:13 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Right Brother

Trump is now up to 10 million plus followers on Twitter, where you can see many clips which look like commercials.

He’s spending nothing and getting his word out to countless millions.Brilliant move.


44 posted on 07/22/2016 9:21:17 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: kingu

California?

Why the heck would she even run ads there?

Its a lock.


45 posted on 07/22/2016 9:21:43 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: mandaladon
This

should be on billboards around the country!!

46 posted on 07/22/2016 9:22:27 AM PDT by luvie (I love the troops. That is all...)
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To: All

"As Jeb-you're-next, I had money to burn. I spent
150 million...and what did I get"? Three lousy delegates.

47 posted on 07/22/2016 9:22:42 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PACE A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing penetrates it.)
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To: mandaladon

Good...she can keep on spending!


48 posted on 07/22/2016 9:22:53 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Her campaign consultants are the only ones making money off her.

They’ll get paid whether she wins or loses. No wonder it isn’t working.


49 posted on 07/22/2016 9:23:23 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: mandaladon

Saw her one on “National Defense” where it stated she “took on Vladimir Putin”. Hah!


50 posted on 07/22/2016 9:23:26 AM PDT by woweeitsme
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To: NonValueAdded
I was going to apologize to Mrs. Garner because the death of her son was troubling, but then I found this on Wikipedia:

Garner had been arrested by the NYPD thirty times since 1980 on charges such as assault, resisting arrest, and grand larceny.

Obviously he knew the drill and his resistance was a contributing factor to his own death. Thug life guarantees a Darwinian outcome.

But perhaps we will get some parenting tips out of the RAT convention.

51 posted on 07/22/2016 9:24:01 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("You can't fake good kids.")
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To: InABunkerUnderSF

Another example of Hillary’s lack of forward thinking. Obama gave her a blueprint on how to win in this modern age using social media and celebrities, but she is using the same tactics her impeached husband did in the 90’s.

BTW: Has anyone heard about any major celebrity support for her?


52 posted on 07/22/2016 9:24:45 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: maggief

Interesting the democrats have been relying on Cruz to get Hilary in the White House.


53 posted on 07/22/2016 9:24:52 AM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Trump is not planning to run a conventional campaign.

That’s not him and he is showing people you don’t have to spend a lot of money to be successful.

And Hillary and the Democrats are stuck in the past.


54 posted on 07/22/2016 9:25:49 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: maggief

She has the same mannerisms as my alcoholic aunt.


55 posted on 07/22/2016 9:26:10 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: mandaladon

As a former drunken sailor, I must take exception to that characterization.

1. We drunken sailors were spending our own money.

2. When we ran out of money, we stopped spending.


56 posted on 07/22/2016 9:26:14 AM PDT by Bob (No, being a US Senator and the Secretary of State are not accomplishments; they're jobs.)
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To: mandaladon

No matter how much you spend dressing it up, perfuming it and marketing it - it’s pretty hard to sell a dog turd.


57 posted on 07/22/2016 9:26:59 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: circlecity

Hillary has no record of accomplishments to run on and the only thing she can and will do is try to tear Trump down.

Its not going to be enough.


58 posted on 07/22/2016 9:29:33 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: mandaladon

It’s really difficult to try to market a cow pie as an angel food cake.


59 posted on 07/22/2016 9:30:42 AM PDT by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: goldstategop

They don’t show Hillary because she doesn’t wear well ......

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Did you see Scott Adams post on Dilbert (FR thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3451794/posts )? “decompose” ..... ha ha ha

A week ago you compared ugly Donald Trump with ugly Hillary Clinton and declared them a visual tie. That matters because our visual “brain” generally wins against whatever part of the brain is pretending to be logical that day. But once we got a look at the entire Trump family, acting as a group, our visual brains started seeing them as a package deal. And when you compare the entire Trump family’s visual appeal to the entire Clinton family’s visual imagery it’s a massacre.

Would you prefer seeing Bill and Hillary Clinton decompose in front of your eyes for eight years, or watch the Trump family develop their dynasty? Entertainment-wise, that’s no contest. And people usually vote for entertainment over policy. They just don’t realize it. That’s the biggest news from the convention, and you won’t see it in any headline.”


60 posted on 07/22/2016 9:31:03 AM PDT by Qiviut (In Islam you have to die for Allah. The God I worship died for me. [Franklin Graham])
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