There are 17 anti-Obamacare ads for every other Obamacare ad
By Aaron Blake September 4 at 5:11 PM
As I wrote earlier today, Obamacare has really faded as an electoral issue this year. What makes the even more striking is the sheer volume of negative ads it has withstood -- with almost nothing to counteract those negative messages.
The below chart from the Wesleyan Media Project shows precisely how big that imbalance has been.
While more than 160,000 ads have aired against Obamacare since Jan. 1 -- more than one-quarter of all political ads -- fewer than 10,000 have mentioned the law in any other context. That means not negative, but not necessarily positive either (many occupy something of a neutral territory). All told, it's more than a 17-to-1 margin.
In that context, the fact the Obamacare has slipped as a priority is even more surprising.
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