Democrats widen spending gap in final election stretch

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Axios

2 hours ago


Democrats have roughly doubled their national ad spending advantage against Republicans over the last month or so, per analytics platform AdImpact.

Why it matters: Only a short window remains to sway voters before Election Day — though tens of millions of Americans have already cast their ballot.

By the numbers: Democratic campaigns and outside groups have spent about $4.5 billion combined on ads as of Thursday, compared to about $3.5 billion for Republicans.

That's up about $2.7 billion for Democrats and $2.2 billion for Republicans since Sept. 20, when Democrats had spent $1.8 billion to Republicans' $1.3 billion.

Put another way, Democrats are now up about $1 billion against Republicans, compared to their $500 million advantage late last month.

Context: These figures include spending around presidential, congressional and down-ballot races.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2024/10/31/democrats-republicans-ad-spending-election-day

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. Dreaming of a blue Congress to work with Harris.

[Prairie Gates]

2. Ads were Seven Trump to One Harris on World Series Game 5 last night

Just sayin'...

Maybe a Yankees-Dodgers World Series game isn't the best way to spend ad money, but it was noticeable.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Remember that many ads are actually TARGETED and run in LOCAL markets

So assuming you ARE in California (per your Profile), then the Harris ads would be meaningless there. But I guarantee you that they were running in the swing states like mine (PA) during that game.

[bahboo]

4. wouldn't know that from the hundreds of panicky emails and texts I get each day...

not complaining...just observing...

[Ms. Toad]

5. Hmm. . . wonder why I'm seeing all of these ads in my various social media feeds

declaring that Democrats are being outspent. Not that I'm cynical, or anything.