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Jarqui

(10,110 posts)
Tue Nov 1, 2016, 09:51 PM Nov 2016

Bloomberg: Tracking the 2016 Presidential Money Race

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2016-presidential-campaign-fundraising/
October 28, 2016

Sometimes looking at where the ad money is being spent and where the candidates are campaigning gives one a sense of where the two sides feel they're competitive. I think Nate Silver incorporates some of this in his analysis. I was curious and wanted to get my head around the money side of the campaign. This is a pretty good comprehensive report. I didn't see it linked recently (sorry of I missed it in my search)

It does show ads dollar by state. But Trump apparently has given up VA so you have to take things like that into consideration when you look at the numbers. He's only spent around 50% of what she has for all his big money bluster (bullshit).

Clinton
Total Raised to Date . . . . . . . $1,068.1M
Total Spent . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $897.7M
Total Cash on Hand .. . . . . . . . . $171.6M

Media Buy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $237.4M 53.3%

Trump
Total Raised to Date . . . . . . . . . $512.2M
Total Spent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $429.5M
Total Cash on Hand . . . . . . . . . . . $83.9M

Media Buy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $68.0M 27.4%

Hillary has clobbered the billionaire any way you look at it when it comes to campaign money.

That $100 mil Trump promised (if he really had it) could have come in handy.

That's the one positive of the Comey letter. It might entice the jerk to waste some of his own money.
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Bloomberg: Tracking the 2016 Presidential Money Race (Original Post) Jarqui Nov 2016 OP
He didn't NEED to pay for media! He got more hours FREE than Hillary paid for. nt napi21 Nov 2016 #1
I'd say he's got an unprecedented amount of media coverage Jarqui Nov 2016 #3

Jarqui

(10,110 posts)
3. I'd say he's got an unprecedented amount of media coverage
Tue Nov 1, 2016, 10:10 PM
Nov 2016

A guy named Barack didn't do so bad on that count in 2008 or so ...

But the ads are a bit of a different animal. They're delivering a crafted message which you cannot always expect from media coverage as Trump found out in the past few months when he felt this coverage was part of the rigged system against him.

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