Posted on 09/21/2016 6:14:33 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Hillary Clinton spent $645,000 more a day than her opponent Donald Trump last month, but even with her $50 million campaign outlay, she has not been able to pull away from him in the race for the White House.
Clinton's campaign had its most expensive month to date in August, eclipsing its previous monthly high by more than $12 million. And combined, Clinton and the national Democratic Party paid out $78 million in August, while Trump and the Republican National Committee spent about $47 million.
While both candidates are raising huge sums from donors, their lopsided spending lays bare the difference in the two major party presidential campaigns. Clinton is running a conventional operation featuring multimillion-dollar ad buys and expansive voter outreach. Trump has kept spending down by enjoying seemingly limitless free media coverage and outsourcing the guts of his voter contact duties to the Republican Party.
The spending disparity has also become a favored Trump boast.
"Our expenditures on advertising, our expenditures on people, our expenditures on everything are a tiny fraction. And yet we're minimum tied," Trump said Tuesday at a rally in Kenansville, North Carolina. "If you can spend less and be winning, that's a positive thing, right?"
Josh Schwerin, a spokesman for the Clinton campaign, said Trump has been "derelict" in building a political operation that would help not only himself but down-ballot Republicans.
Much of Clinton's spending has been eaten up by advertising, which is costing her about $10 million per week. Through August, she blanketed 11 states with 35,714 broadcast television commercials to Trump's 7,457 in five states, according to Kantar Media's political ad data.
Clinton also has built a robust campaign team of 800 employees who cost a total of about $5 million last month.
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Oh, the hypocrisy. The party that decries money in politics is blowing through their stash in record amounts.
Te Clinton consultant hangers-on will now be raiding her money pile as fast as they can (same as Jebecito’s did) before access is blocked. Like stealing from the purser’s safe on the Titanic.
MUCH better, thanks.
How can she spend so much money while she naps?
CGI rallies must be expensive
I know the feeling.
How quaint. They think it’s still all about media and money and crony influence and TV ads. They don’t even know how pissed off Americans who work and pay taxes are out in drive-by America.
Americans aren’t buying the Ol’ Googly Eyes’ Dog Food that Pickles is offering.
. . and yet, Hillary still may not be able to buy the
election!
Look at the people behind her. They are watching an “Applaud Now” sign instead of listening to her. I swear that’s what it looks like to me. The clapping response is too choreographed and staccato to be anything but that.
That video is some serious weird, between the bug eyes and the head nodding.
“Eedle, fleagle fladdle mein von Fräulein ....”
Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
Barney Google bet his horse would win the prize.
When the horses ran that day, Spark Plug ran the other way.
Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
Barney Google had a wife three times his size
She sued Barney for divorce
Now he's living with his horse
Who's the greatest lover that this country ever knew?
And who's the man that Valentino takes his hat off to?
No, it isn't Douglas Fairbanks that the ladies rave about.
When he arrives, who makes the wives chase all their husbands out?
Why, it's Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
Barney Google is the guy who never buys.
Women take him out to dine, then he steals the waiter's dime.
Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
Barney Google is the luckiest of guys.
If he fell in to the mud, he'd come up with a diamond stud.
Barney Google with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
Who's the greatest fire chief this country ever saw?
Who's the man who loves to hear the blazing buildings roar?
Anytime the house is burning, and the flames leap all about,
Say, tell me do, who goes, "kerchoo!" and puts the fire out?
Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
Barney Google, thought his horse could win the prize.
He got odds of ten to eight; Spark Plug came in three days late.
Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
Barney Google tried to enter paradise.
When Saint Peter saw his face, he said, "Go to the other place".
Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes
Can’t talk straight,
Can’t see straight,
Not sexually straight,
Isn’t legally straight.
Crooked Hillary.
CC
Great analogy.
Good point!
I like your analogy too. Far better than the old, “Rearranging the deck chairs..... “
She’s spending all that money on TV ads but who watches TV? A few million. Tens of millions get their info from the internet.
There is a beautiful irony to this campaign.
The MSM/lefty/academic establishment went nuts when the Supreme Court allowed big money cash to be donated to campaigns without limits.
The sainted lefties insisted it would be the end of Democracy because big corporate donors would now be able to choose winners and losers in politics.
Now almost all of the corporate money is going to Hillary—and there is an excellent chance she may lose.
Where are their complaints now?
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