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   Justice22 said, 7 months ago

   Could it be a conspiracy between the news and advertising?
   They are the ones making the money from the campaigns.
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   Tigger said, 7 months ago

   He makes the untrue nasty attack ads
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   Cinci Steve said, 7 months ago

   I think he’s an O supporter.
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   omQ R said, 7 months ago

   I think DrC mentioned that spending all that dough on campaigning does serve a useful purpose: pumps shed loads of cash from very rich folks into the economy, a mini-stimulus plan.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 7 months ago

   Yes $2 billion used on the campaigns. What a waste.
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   Jeddidyah said, 7 months ago

   What will Faux News have to talk about with out all that Koch money ? 52% Obama, 48% mittens.
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   Fuzzy Thinker (I) said, 7 months ago

   There is always the year after next campaign.
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   ahab said, 7 months ago

   @omQ R

   Perhaps we in America should require that only areas struck by a disaster, be allowed to campaign for the rest of the country as “campaign central”. …Ah!, but then Texas wouldn’t put up sea walls, and they would start seeding clouds over the hurricane corridor.
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   Jase99 said, 7 months ago

   TV ads don’t affect me seeing as how I very rarely watch. I’ve become immune to the ads and snail mail ads. What bothers me is the non-postal #$%^ left in my mail box the last few days.
   
   So far someone has left in my mailbox a “Christian” nut job book on the Rapture, a postcard equating the Democratic Party to Hitler, and two printed notes explaining the unnamed person or group doesn’t believe in discrimination and then detailing how and why a specific group should be discriminated against. The fact that person(s) or group(s) was/were too cowardly to put a name to any of it tells me just how pathetic some “conservatives” really are.
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    ruff said, 7 months ago

    @omQ R

    That is correct, but it is again the blind dog chasing it’s tail. There is no tangible product, no real improvement of any kind.
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    Dycel said, 7 months ago

    @Tigger

    No his network makes millions from a “bi-partisan” attitude to our agony!
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    Dycel said, 7 months ago

    @omQ R

    That would be great if only the rest of us with our nickels and dimes didnt have to match them.
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    Dycel said, 7 months ago

    @Night-Gaunt49

    Wonder if they could spend that in two months instead of two years?
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    Respectful Troll said, 7 months ago

    A recent NPR story had an ad exec for a major tv market saying he’d be glad when the elections were over because his regular ad buyers tended to stay away during elections. Apparently, car dealers don’t like their ads sharing commericial breaks with political ads.
    It’s a shame when political ads make car salesmen disgusted with marketing techniques.
    For 2016, let’s get a law passed requiring politicians to speak in verifiable facts and fine them for verifiable lies.
    We deserve honest people in office, not just people with access to money and publicists.
    Respectfuly,
    C.
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    MortyForTyrant said, 7 months ago

    I was thinking about just that issue the other day. Did the agencies hire temps? Will there be layoffs? How does the campaign affect the unemployment-rate? And is an election-based economy sustainable over the long run…
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