Posted on 10/15/2015 2:08:23 PM PDT by jimbo123
Consider this another bad sign for Jeb Bush’s presidential run: Since a mega TV and radio ad buy was launched in New Hampshire his poll numbers have dropped.
A detailed report from Politico outlines how Bush is cutting back after living large on the campaign trail and notes how Bush’s fortunes haven’t been boosted by ad campaigns from Bush and the Right to Rise super PAC, where approximately $4.8 million has been spent.
According to data an ad-tracking firm produced for Politico, pro-Bush spots have taken up 60 percent of political air time in New Hampshire in the past three weeks.
It’s done absolutely nothing to help him in the state, in what is considered a must-win for Bush if he’s to overtake front-runners Donald Trump and Ben Carson.
In New Hampshire, his poll numbers have gone from 9 percent to 8.7 percent during the ad buy, according to Real Clear Politics.
(Excerpt) Read more at national.suntimes.com ...
Mitt Romney in 2012 spent hundreds of millions of dollars on media advertising in the fall campaign.
No one voted for him.
Jeb Bush is about to learn that same lesson. All the money in the world is of no value if people don’t buy what you sell them.
In this case, its not the marketing, stupid. Its the brand.
I won’t write Jebbie off until Barbara says the gig is up!
You may be right, but it will be up to Barbara to make the call.
How much did Karl Rove’s PAC spend in 2012? Over a hundred million and few (if any) of his candidates won.
Money is overrated in elections.
Nope.
George Will touting Jeb as “the most conservative governor”. Flooding radio with the ads.
This is the Jeb who said he was ““willing to lose the primary to win the general” by not seeking support from conservatives.
no, intellect is not at issue
message and charisma are the problem
Presidents named Bush have held the office for 12 of the last 27 years.
Pity the fool who ever imagined the American people would elect another president from that same family so soon.
And every time they do, whatever they touch turns to crap.
I feel bad for Dubya. Like him, I wear a proper western hat and jeans, and I know how to get my hands dirty. And like him, my little brothers wound up being a bunch of metrosexual libs with 'Coexist' bumper stickers on their politically correct eco-mobiles.
Too bad he can't do like when they were little, and knock some sense into Jeb's head.
My biggest complaint with W. Bush was that he let the Dems and the MSM pummel him 24/7/365 when he had a Trump-like defense weapon (Dick Cheney) at the ready and he didn’t use it.
I'm right there with ya.
I can remember wanting to punch something every time GW turned the other cheek to the press and the looney left. By refusing to answer their lunatic assaults on him, he allowed them to stomp on all Republicans and conservatives.
Quite honestly, that was the precise thing that set the stage for the entrance of Obama. Had Bush nailed the press as he should have, and had he put the cockroaches in their rightful place, our side wouldn't have been so weakened. The deep left sensed the weakness and stormed the palace.
I liked George W as a person, and he led the country well during the aftermath of 9/11, but yes, pretty much everything else he did while in office was a net negative for the country.
That family is solidly in the country club elite class, and will never be good leaders for America.
you can fool some of the people some of the time, some of the
people all the time, but not all of the people all of the time ...
[not to mention his TV ads completely blew chunks. retread loser ads ala Romney. the same kind of TV ads that would guarantee Jeb would lose in a landslide if he was the nominee.]
“Bush is also pitching serious policy proposals”
Indeed. A whole plethora of policy proposals that the GOP base absolutely detests!
“Voters aren’t engaged yet.”
Oh, yes we are! And we can smell from a mile away the lying, hypocritical, cringing, PC, GOPe, RINO, DC insider scum who practice hours a day in front of the mirror pretending to be holier than thou, meanwhile selling out the workers of this country for hundreds of millions of dollars of campaign “contributions” from the rich and powerful oligarchs
“primary to be decided by a conservative electorate more enthralled by emotional anti-establishment”
Nope, the primary will be decided by a conservative electorate enthralled by our first ever anti-GOP-establishment candidate in decades, a candidate who can’t be bought and a candidate who isn’t aligned with the lying, hypocritical, cringing, PC, GOPe, RINO, DC insider scum who practice hours a day in front of the mirror pretending to be holier than thou, meanwhile selling out the workers of this country for hundreds of millions of dollars of campaign “contributions” from the rich and powerful oligarchs.
“The $100 million that Right to Rise socked away early on, which will be used to sell Bush and, if that fails, take out his rivals, might just be the only thing that can save his campaign.
“Thank God we did it when we could,” Zeidman said. “We figured that if fundraising dried up, we’d have the powder to stay in the race.”
Absolute proof of what I was saying above!
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