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factfinder_77

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Sat May 7, 2016, 06:09 AM May 2016

Only 2 % of $383 million on campaign TV ads, was anti Sanders ads - and his name briefly mentioned

As The Huffington Post reported in mid-April, of the roughly $383 million spent on campaign television advertising in 2016, only about 2 percent was on anti-Sanders ads, much of which just briefly mentioned his name or featured his image.

People are pointing to his general election numbers as being stronger than Clinton’s, and that’s largely a byproduct of the fact he hasn’t seen incoming fire,” said Brendan Nyhan, a political science professor at Dartmouth College and a columnist for The New York Times.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-election_us_572cae72e4b016f378957726
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Only 2 % of $383 million on campaign TV ads, was anti Sanders ads - and his name briefly mentioned (Original Post) factfinder_77 May 2016 OP
Negative attacks on Bernie backfire back onto the attacker. (nt) w4rma May 2016 #1
Not surprising. They wanted to run against Bernie. Fortunately they aren't Lucinda May 2016 #2
LALALALALALLAALALALAL - I can't HEAR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BootinUp May 2016 #3
They did not need ads to attack him, they had the so-called "news" networks do it for them Bjorn Against May 2016 #4
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