Time: Hillary Clinton Aired One-Fourth of All 2016 Campaign Ads So Far

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Time: Hillary Clinton Aired One-Fourth of All 2016 Campaign Ads So Far

The Clinton campaign has bought and aired nearly 5,500 TV ads this year through Monday targeting voters in the early presidential caucus and primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis of data from Kantar Media/CMAG, an advertising tracking firm.

Such a number accounts for nearly one in four TV ads aired so far during the 2016 presidential race by any source, Democrat or Republican.

That includes any of nearly two-dozen other presidential candidates, political parties and political action committees. It also includes big-dollar super PACs and nonprofit groups, which thanks to the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision may raise and spend unlimited amounts of money to advocate for political candidates.

Measured another way: Clinton’s campaign has aired more TV ads than the campaigns of Republicans Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio — combined.

Consider that Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont — so far Clinton’s main Democratic primary rival who has of late risen in polls, especially in New Hampshire — has yet to air a single TV ad while drawing huge crowds to campaign events.

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1. Yeah she shouldn't have aired that Bengazi ad where Kevin McCarthy admits it is a smear job.

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I live in Iowa and have seen most of the HRC ads. They are all positive ads (except the Benghazi one, which is right to be negative).

I guess I don't have a problem with her airing all these positive ads. There is a clear bias in the news media against her, so I understand the campaign's reasoning that the need to go around the news media to present her directly.

I'm glad Bernie decided not to take PAC money. On the other hand I don't condemn HRC for taking PAC money. Unfortunately we are currently stuck with the egregious Citizens United decision.

I don't think Dems should surrender to Rove's highly funded lie machine, American Crossroads. Or to the Koch Brothers, who I believe said they'd spend 800 million to prop us some asshole Republican and to lie about Democrats.