Hey Campaigns: How about a break?
Since I live in a “battleground state” (Ohio), I have the fortune or misfortune of getting to see all the ads for the Presidential campaigns–both from the campaigns themselves and from the 527s–ad nauseum.
“Sen. John Kerry’s campaign and groups opposed to President Bush have run almost twice as many TV ads in closely contested states as the Bush-Cheney campaign… This month, the Kerry campaign plans to spend $18 million on TV ads, outpacing the Bush campaign by about $10 million…
The Kerry campaign’s ads were shown 72,908 times, 3.1% more than the Bush-Cheney campaign’s 70,688 showings.
Political groups’ads were shown 56,627 times. All but 513 were ads by liberal, anti-Bush groups such as MoveOn PAC and The Media Fund. The others were by conservative groups.
Taken together, about 129,000 Kerry or anti-Bush ads were aired, 82% more than the Bush-Cheney total.”
So how about giving us people a break from these non-stop ads? They do get stale rather quickly ya know
At least there’s a chance that you have a possibility of influencing the election. Here in California, unless there’s a really big ‘revolt’, none of them will consider pandering to use since [quote]they’re all Democrat hippies out there on the West Coast…[/quote]
*NOTE* – check the URL link….;)
Comment by Mad Mikey — 7/12/2004 @ 9:33 am
You’ve got a good point there; my only hope is that I don’t have to change my state of residency for my grad school scholarship–cause I’d like my vote to count.
Note: Congrats! How soon should I update my link?
Comment by Jaws — 7/12/2004 @ 9:53 am