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Money is gushing into New Hampshire as presidential candidates see the first in the nation primary as a make-or-break moment for their campaigns.
About $100 million has already been poured into broadcast and cable television ads courting voters for the Feb. 9 vote, according to estimates from Kantar Media's CMAG and an analysis by Ken Goldstein, a Bloomberg Politics analyst and University of San Francisco professor. In comparison, about $2 million had been spent in New Hampshire by this point in the 2012 race that ultimately came down to Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.
The spending in New Hampshire shows how American politics is being transformed by U.S. Supreme Court decisions in recent years that cleared the path for unbridled spending in elections. The sheer number of candidates and the lack of an incumbent in the race has also intensified the flow of money.
So far, the vast majority of New Hampshire ad spendingabout 80 percent as of Feb. 1has come from the Republican candidates and outside groups supporting them, according to Goldstein. Even Donald Trump, who rode a wave of free publicity through the early months of his campaign, began TV advertising in early January, according to CMAG.
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HassleCat
(6,409 posts)Trump, Rubio and Cruz all see an opportunity, and they all want to get off to a fast start early in the game.
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(1,683 posts)metroins
(2,550 posts)Warpy
(111,277 posts)The only political ads I'd see around here are on the cable news channels I refuse to watch and on the local network channels that have nothing much on them.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)How many people could we house and feed for the amount of money spent on this bullshit?
You want them to be taxed more so instead of trying to buy government they end up investing in government?
You must be one of them there socialists?
And a reason why I never donate. All these politicans are doing just fine without my money. I already donate enough of my money to this country.