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brooklynite

(94,792 posts)
Sat Jul 18, 2015, 12:18 AM Jul 2015

Exclusive: Hillary’s first ad buy

Source: Politico

Hillary Clinton is reserving time for her first major ad buys of the 2016 campaign – shelling out $7.7 million for TV spots in Iowa and New Hampshire for the fall, a campaign official told POLITICO.

The ad buys would allow Clinton to go on the air as early as the first week in November through Election Day in each State – Feb. 1 for the Iowa caucuses, Feb. 9 for the New Hampshire primary.

It’s possible Clinton could buy additional time in either state sooner, the official emphasized, but she wanted to lock down the dates to counter the expected avalanche of ads bought by GOP candidates and their related super PACs.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/hillary-clinton-first-ad-buy-2016-120295.html?hp=l2_3

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Ed Suspicious

(8,879 posts)
1. 7 million dollar ad buy in two small primary states? You think the mass media wants change?
Sat Jul 18, 2015, 12:21 AM
Jul 2015

I doubt it. Look for media to present status quo or republicans as top choices in 2016. MSM needs to feather the nest somehow. No change is just the ticket.

LuvLoogie

(7,049 posts)
2. Bernie should write a bill that takes money out of politics
Sat Jul 18, 2015, 12:48 AM
Jul 2015

once and for all. I'm sure Hillary would sign it once Bernie gets the bill through the Senate and convinces John Boehner to bring it up for a vote, which would of course pass because Bernie wrote it and thought of it first.

If only Citizens United had produced an anti-Bernie film...

Ed Suspicious

(8,879 posts)
3. Do you work for the media or something? Is your
Sat Jul 18, 2015, 12:54 AM
Jul 2015

livelihood threatened by low budget, publically financed elections? You seem heavily invested in keeping things just the way they are.

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Cha

(297,799 posts)
7. "The ad buys would allow Clinton to go on the air as early as the first week in November through
Sat Jul 18, 2015, 04:21 AM
Jul 2015
Election Day in each State – Feb. 1 for the Iowa caucuses, Feb. 9 for the New Hampshire primary."

Good. mahalo brooklynite

Evergreen Emerald

(13,071 posts)
8. From what she has presented so far, I think she is running a savvy campaign.
Sat Jul 18, 2015, 09:51 AM
Jul 2015

I am trying to recall when the political season has started in the past, before it became 365 days a year.

daybranch

(1,309 posts)
9. Hillary in the interests of democracy, if she is interested
Sat Jul 18, 2015, 11:37 AM
Jul 2015

should buy a similar dollar amount of ads for Bernie. But then, maybe she is not really interested in fairness and believes democracy should be purchased. The lord knows she has enough money in her own pocket.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
10. Broadcasters should provide air time gratis to all candidates.
Sat Jul 18, 2015, 11:53 AM
Jul 2015

That would be the Democratic thing to do, especially how they are the People's airwaves.

ETA: certainly would take the money out of politics. Might even take the influence of the rich out, too, so Wasington would start to do things for the 99-percent, for a change.

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