Just saw one, an anti-Hillary gun ad, on the NFL Cowboys game.
Seen 3 yesterday here in FL during the football game, the first I’ve seen on TV,One Ivanka and two Hillary 50 points ahead
I’m down here in Florida and he’s putting on some good ones along with a few superpacs. The ads really picked up after that 140 million announcement. Hildabeast is also hitting the airwaves.
i agree, he definitely needs a BIG BIG mass media advertising campaign NOW and until election day (people are voting early NOW)
and some of his ads have been very well produced, and the humor ones are always best I think, imho
I've been hearing since Aug (not necessarily here) that he will carpet bomb after Labor Day, then late Sept, then Oct... his approval rating is in the mid-30s and I don't care how bad you let opponent is, you don't win with 30s approval. He had a chance to call her out in front of 86 million and held back... apparently Chelsea's feelings were more important than our nation and our children..
Getting really frustrated at not only his reticence to spend, but his bragging about it! The media shuts down his message, he didn't strike at her at the debate.... if he's not gonna spend massively on ads, how will he get his pro-jobs, pro-America agenda known??
Well, whither? I haven’t seen any, not that it matters: I’m a NeverHillary voter.
My husband and I watched some college football at a bar yesterday afternoon, and I don’t remember any political ads. (Tennessee vs. Georgia ... marvelous last five minutes of play/30 minutes of chronology). $2 glasses of good wine!
I haven’t seen a single ad here in Nevada, we don’t watch much live tv other than the news but still haven’t seen a single Trump ad.
Hillary ads every few minutes though, sad.
I have seen a few here in Pennsylvania. But then again I don’t watch much network tv.
We’re seeing a lot in Florida now. Just in the past week, but it’s pretty regular to see now.
Saw the “50 points ahead” commercial here in the Philly suburbs ... at least 3 times during the most excellent Ryder Cup (golf) ... also some pro and con Toomey (PA Senator race) ads too. We rarely watch network TV, s not sure what else has been broadcast here lately
I don’t watch much “real” TV but I’ve been seeing Trump ads fairly often on Youtube.
Here in SW Ohio, there’s been a few in the last 10 days or so...but I also don’t watch too much TV.
So I’d guess he’s ramping up TV commercials to reach those that are not on internet 24/7, watch cable news or watch rallies on Right Side.
For one thing, Mississippi is not a state that needs him spending his resources on, since Mississippi is pretty much in the bag for the Republicans. Nor is it considered a battleground state.
I don’t watch a lot of TV, but here in Maine, I started seeing Trump TV ads several days ago.
I’ve seen four of them so far; one shows Trump speaking at one on his rallies with a Mexican woman and a black guy singing Trump’s praises. I’ve seen this ad three times.
Another ad is a negative ad against Hillary, showing the rise of ISIS and videos of Hillary making her infamous “deplorables” remark and a video of her complaining “Why am I not leading by 50%?”
I sure hope Mr. Trump is gearing up for a carpet bombing of the country with TV and radio ads.
We saw how Jeb Bush and other GOPe candidates got utterly destroyed by Trump despite running hundreds of millions of dollars in ads.
Now Crooked Hillary is running hundreds of millions of dollars in ads and she continues to drop in the polls.
I hope Trump runs ZERO ads from now until November 8th. Tell the MSM to go stick it. Money can be much better spent on social media, rallies and GOTV activities.
Why feed the MSM beast?
In this day and age, nobody is going to change their vote based on a damn TV ad. Most people stream through Netflix or DVR their programs so they can FF through the ads. Nobody watches the damn things. Total waste of money.
Crooked Hillary could spend one trillion dollars on ads between now and November 8th and still lose. Donald Trump can spend ZERO dollars on ads and still win.
The pac ads are on regularly In WI both TV and Radio
Amazingly, I received an email today from the Trump campaign to help out in other states (Nevada and Colorado). First one I have ever received via email from any political candidate or party (been online for nearly 20 years). Since I am not seeing much of his campaign here in California (nor would I expect it), it's hard to want to commit the time.
It must be nice to live in a state where you actually have some say in your state and local campaigns. We get to choose between two DEMs for our US congressional seat (Just like in 2014), and we're not even close to most liberal US congressioanal district in California.
/rant
I believe that Trump is not running a large number of ads now because they will effectively make no difference against Hillary because she’s locked in at 42-43 percent now and nothing will change that.
Follow me here. I work in insurance, and basically everyone hates insurance companies, but you still need insurance. Same as with a President. You may not like him or her but we have to have a President. We spend millions of advertising dollars on every type of insurance product which are all just variations of a basic insurance policy, whatever your need may be. Most fail because the product sucks. Again, it’s all just a variation on the same thing. Hillary is your basic garden variety insurance product, i.e. A typical politician. No amount of money Trump spends is going to make her less acceptable to the 43% and no amount of money she spends is going to make more people buy her product.
Trump knows this as a businessman. What he also knows is that you close a sale in 1 of three ways. You offer a superior product, you advertise the hell out of it and make people think they need it, or you sell through word of mouth. Trump has 1 and 3 covered. His internals are probably showing him in a solid position even though early voting has begun, hers, not so much as evidenced by her spending everywhere. He will in all likelihood advertise the hell out of himself with about 14 days left, create a demand for his superior product and convincing you that you need it, all the way to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Trump needs to let go of some of his bucks and blanket the airwaves with hard hitting ads. I don’t want to be sitting around on Nov 9th saying “woulda, coulda, shoulda” while the beast gloats.