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The Harris part of the Biden-Harris campaign inherited the Biden problem. In order to establish his credibility as a candidate, he began spending a ton of money early on ads. Much of that ad campaign seemed to be aimed at convincing his own party that he was viable candidate. Eventually a donor coup cut off the money and replaced him with Kamala who is once again burning through a ton of cash and spending it on ads.
Now maybe it’s because I’m deep blue territory, but I see Kamala ads all over. The ads aren’t trying to persuade me to do anything except send her money. That’s a familiar spiral in political fundraising where money is raised to spend on raising more money to take out ads to raise more money.
Kamala is blowing through a whole lot of cash. $137 million was spent on ads just in August. And if there’s anyone who doesn’t need to do ad spending on that scale it’s a politician who is currently getting billions in free media publicity. And yet the spending goes on.
Ads are not especially effective. Especially TV ads. Campaigns spend a lot of money on ads either due to incompetence or corruption.
As I wrote in Kamala’s Money Machine, she has a history of overspending on campaigns. And the burn rate here is impressive. As is the amount of money pouring in.
And every time I click on Youtube, I’m treated to Kamala slowly intoning that she needs money from me.
Who knows if it’s paying off, but her campaign has a lot of money in the bank to burn. Trump’s campaign coffers pale in comparison, which isn’t good heading into this final stretch. As for the assertion that campaigns spend money on ads due to incompetence or corruption, first time I ever heard that argument. What is it based on and would we be complaining if Trump was blanketing the airways?
It makes sense because they have a ton of money, but also because she is not doing interviews and has to pay people to show up at her rallies. Trump and Vance get free ads every time Kamala or Timmy speak.
“$137 million was spent on ads just in August.” This is a strong indicator that Kamala has failed to register with the America people. Spending that much, and barely leading in some polls, and losing in several others is evidence that this is true. Kamala is using the ads because she cannot communicate her true agenda & policies because they are so radical. Also she lacks the ability to directly answer any questions without a rambling meaningless word salad. So the ads are used to mask the deception.
how can you fight the cost of living, the open border danger crises, the wars and shortages with a fortune in ads – there is a point where those sparkly psychology induced ads with the reality of life?
I live in a 55+ community and I wonder about those old fools who put Harris = Walz signs in their yards – no matter how bad it is, some people just never learn or wake up in human life
Over-spending for lies and propaganda is what the left does best.
I think Hillary had a much larger campaign fund in 2016 than Trump and still lost.
I just skip those Harris ads whenever they appear on YT.
Coming from this consumer’s point of view, it looks like “shotgun” advertising—ads blanketed to a wide audience targeted at random. I’ve gotten them on my phone, and I see them on TV. It’s neither strategic nor efficient. But if you’ve got the money, why not? It’s better than nothing. Which, by the way, was probably the Dems only reason for choosing Kamala in the first place.
I haven’t seen a single Heels Up Harris ad, ha haw! Of course, I don’t watch network T.V. and I sure as Hell don’t watch Youtube. I haven’t seen any signs around here in San Jose CA, either. If I did, I’d want to torch it.
I’m seeing a lot of Harris/Walz ads on Ynet, an English-language Israeli news site. I’m guessing she’s trying to firm up Jewish votes, whether living there or here. (There’s a large American expat community in Israel.)