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Historic NY

(37,449 posts)
Mon Jan 11, 2016, 01:53 PM Jan 2016

Does Bernie Sanders have a Jeb Bush problem?

A high-profile presidential candidate has seen a massive advertising blitz, yet his standing in the polls has barely budged.

No, it's not Republican Jeb Bush. Rather, it’s Bernie Sanders, who’s stealthily revved his advertising machine and is now out-gunning Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton on television.

In December alone, the Sanders campaign aired about 7,650 TV ads, according to a Center for Public Integrity review of broadcast and national cable ad data provided by Kantar Media/CMAG.

That’s about one TV ad every six minutes.

The Sanders campaign had eschewed TV advertising altogether until late last year.

This December blitz also amounts to nearly one-third more ads than the Clinton campaign, which aired about 5,860 TV ads last month — one every eight minutes.

The Sanders campaign is also, of late, pouring more cash into TV ads than Clinton.

http://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/01/11/19123/does-bernie-sanders-have-jeb-bush-problem?utm_content=buffer1a1ae&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=publici-buffer


After a while people just tune out or become annoyed. We had a Rep. Congresswoman run continuous ads on the classic rock radio station 10 per hour for months. I called the station to tell us when it will be over.

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Does Bernie Sanders have a Jeb Bush problem? (Original Post) Historic NY Jan 2016 OP
This opinion piece fails to match reality. Sanders is surging in the polls. DisgustipatedinCA Jan 2016 #1
No get the red out Jan 2016 #2
Well of course we know Hillary's lead has vanished and the Clinton Campaign INdemo Jan 2016 #3
FAIL grasswire Jan 2016 #4
Excellent question...K&R comradebillyboy Jan 2016 #5
Really? NorthCarolina Jan 2016 #7
lol,Bernie is actually going up in the polls wendylaroux Jan 2016 #6
Indeed. It's the Clinton campaign that's getting Jarqui Jan 2016 #11
no they have not, wendylaroux Jan 2016 #17
Simple answer: NO litlbilly Jan 2016 #8
Curious how that article is supposed to EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #9
Smacks of desperation. libdem4life Jan 2016 #10
The panikationating at weathervane is amusing. NT. Warren Stupidity Jan 2016 #12
Funny thing is, jkbRN Jan 2016 #13
"There's desperation in the air" hobbit709 Jan 2016 #14
Maybe TheFarseer Jan 2016 #15
Jeb? Jeb who?...n/t monmouth4 Jan 2016 #16
Not! sonofspy777 Jan 2016 #18
Dumb panader0 Jan 2016 #19
 

DisgustipatedinCA

(12,530 posts)
1. This opinion piece fails to match reality. Sanders is surging in the polls.
Mon Jan 11, 2016, 01:54 PM
Jan 2016

I don't get where the author is coming from.

INdemo

(6,994 posts)
3. Well of course we know Hillary's lead has vanished and the Clinton Campaign
Mon Jan 11, 2016, 02:02 PM
Jan 2016

is nervous. So my advice, please call Governor Howard Dean and perhaps he could help draft Hillary's scream speech.

wendylaroux

(2,925 posts)
6. lol,Bernie is actually going up in the polls
Mon Jan 11, 2016, 02:09 PM
Jan 2016

what are you posting here? I'd say Hilary has the Jeb problem.

Jarqui

(10,110 posts)
11. Indeed. It's the Clinton campaign that's getting
Mon Jan 11, 2016, 02:26 PM
Jan 2016

nervous because Bernie has closed the gap in Iowa and overtaken her in NH.

Only 28% of Democrats polled in Iowa fairly recently think Hillary is trustworthy. The rest don't. That's not Bernie's fault. That's not the GOP's fault either.

If you want to talk about stagnating in the face of heavy ad spending, the Clinton campaign hasn't put much of a dent in the untrustwortrhy issue, have they?

wendylaroux

(2,925 posts)
17. no they have not,
Mon Jan 11, 2016, 02:43 PM
Jan 2016

I do not believe that is possible,people think what they think. Too much stuff in her past,

not all her fault either,but it is there.

EdwardBernays

(3,343 posts)
9. Curious how that article is supposed to
Mon Jan 11, 2016, 02:15 PM
Jan 2016

"serve democracy by revealing abuses of power, corruption and betrayal of public trust by powerful public and private institutions, using the tools of investigative journalism"

That's the goal of the Center for Public Integrity... apparently.

jkbRN

(850 posts)
13. Funny thing is,
Mon Jan 11, 2016, 02:28 PM
Jan 2016

The author provides no sources for Bernies poll numbers "not budging"--that's because if he were to provide sources and data he would kill his own argument.

Pathetic.

 

sonofspy777

(360 posts)
18. Not!
Mon Jan 11, 2016, 03:06 PM
Jan 2016


Of course because of mistakes made by the Clinton campaign, Bernie has more money than they do
to spend on TV ads....


HAHAHAHA
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