washingtonpost.com — Sen. Barack Obama has launched an eight-figure, 24-state barrage of television advertising, heading into the Super Tuesday contests and beyond, that will carry his message to twice as many states as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's ads will reach with her current ad buy.
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datdudewiggsFeb 2, 2008
Why, because it would be seen by 40 mil people plus? You couldn't ask for better exposure.
mrcobaltblueFeb 2, 2008
Too bad all this money will be worthless soon. Obama doesn't even want to address this, he'll just throw more worthless money at the problem and hope it goes away. You can't fight inflation with inflation, and Obama, Clinton, McCain or Romney have no idea how to fix this problem.
mojiraFeb 2, 2008
Clinton is a famous name and Florida is full of old liberals from New York, those are the only reasons she won.Obama will destroy her in most Super Tuesday states. I think people finally realize that he's not just the better candidate of the two remaining, but he is the better candidate in the general election.
blackjack75Feb 2, 2008
True indeed. Although allowing the more corrupt candidate to purchase more advertising is really sick. You simply can't do any TV ads for politics in may europeans countries. In France for example they all get the same air-time for their ads on TV, for free, as long as they get to be on one the main candidates (requires 500 signatures from Maires). Which means that besides reporters bias, which is still a problem, an ecologist (or a hateful nationalist) will get the same air time for his clips as the candidates from the two biggest parties.
isifunded911Feb 2, 2008
Exactly!But people like to behave like fans. TV tells them who to support to win, and then they become fans to feel like winners. Most people never spend the necessary time at the beginning of the primaries to compare the candidates precisely.People who support Obama have a lot to learn from an article like this one:Liberal-Left Myopia and Obama’s Audacious Deference to Power:<a class="user" href="http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=11936">http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID ...</a>
isifunded911Feb 2, 2008
If the neurotic dumbasses who voted for Bush the psycho begin to vote for Obama, that is proof that Obama is a neurotic billionaires ass licker, like all the candidates marketed by the mass-media.More proof:<a class="user" href="http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=11936">http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID ...</a>
kjsatzFeb 2, 2008
Like bombing Iran!!!!1111
saturnx8Feb 4, 2008
Oh yeah, thats money well spent. If these candidates can raise so much money for their pony shows why can they do the same thing for NATIONAL DEBT! Oh thats right, they are only good at making Debt. How could I forget.