Iowa inundated with caucus ads: $70M already dropped on the state; $5.5M by a pro-Biden super PAC

[TexasTowelie]

Democratic and Republican campaigns and outside groups seeking to bolster, or hurt, candidates have spent or reserved almost $69 million in advertisements as of Friday, according to tracking firm Advertising Analytics.

In that crush of cash: A super PAC supporting former Vice President Joe Biden spent at least $2.3 million in the final two weeks, according to federal filings available Friday.

That political action committee, Unite the Country, has spent more than $5.5 million so far in the race — dwarfing the total independent expenditures to support or oppose the rest of the field, according to Federal Election Commission filings about independent expenditures targeting Iowa.

However, the pro-Biden PAC's spending, mostly on advertisements, production and mailers, is a drop in the bucket of overall spending on just television advertisements in Iowa markets so far this caucus cycle.

Read more: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2020/02/02/iowa-caucus-advertising-spending-democrat-super-pac-backs-biden-5-5-million-iowan-caucus-lead-up/4612581002/

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. I know the DNC has no control over whether states have primaries or caucuses, but do they have...

any control over which states go first?

[Cha]

2. So that's good for Iowa's revenue, right?