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Lunar
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« on: October 22, 2010, 11:23:13 AM »

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/44014.html

If anyone wants to know about the psychology behind the spending: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs
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« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2010, 01:12:38 PM »

    When you have enough that spending $160,000,000 is no object to you, it would be sort of strange to fold at this juncture.

Come on, Whitman isn't THAT rich.  That's more than 12% of her net worth.
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« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2010, 01:23:03 PM »

Well, she could be close to longer being a billionaire.

Every self funder should know when to halt his or her losses.  Especially when you've already saturated the market to the point you're running ads in Chinese
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« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2010, 02:27:49 PM »
« Edited: October 22, 2010, 02:29:29 PM by LunarCare »

Well, she could be close to longer being a billionaire.

Every self funder should know when to halt his or her losses.  Especially when you've already saturated the market to the point you're running ads in Chinese

Running ads in Chinese or Vietnamese in parts of California isn't a bad strategy, actually.  It's a good way to get your message out with little opposition from your less well-funded opponent.

I never said it was a bad strategy Smiley  But yeah, you're right.

I'm just trying to make a point that once someone sees 1,500 of your ads, having them see another 200 is only going to do so much.

It could even be possible that some voters are being turned off by the saturation levels, with the feeling either that she's trying to buy the election, or are just turned off by people who spend so excessively, or are just sick of seeing so many ads for the same candidate that they would otherwise be neutral towards.

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« Reply #4 on: October 22, 2010, 03:58:52 PM »

couldn't Whitman just buy a small island and govern that?
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