After a 100 million dollars in advertising...

[JJC]

Are traditional campaign ads in the internet age becoming irrelevant?

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/e80b356a03204fff8b260618cb458017/clinton-campaign-raced-through-50-million-last-month

- 35,714 ads
- Stretched across 11 battleground states
- 10 million dollars per week
- Plus an additional 20.6 million from Super PAC Priorities USA

And we get:
OH: T+2.5
FL: T+0.7
IA: T+4.3
NC: T+1.2
GA: T+3.8
VA: C+5.2
AZ: T+2.2
NV: T+2.3
ME2: T+5.2
WI: C+4
MI: C+5.2
PA: C+7.3
CO: C+7.7*

*CO includes polls from early July. If we only use polls from mid-august to now we get 40 - 37 C+3.

With leaners, Clinton now holds a razor thin 272 - 266 EV lead.

[Ebsy]

You have a very poor understanding of the purpose of ads.

[JJC]

You have a very poor understanding of the purpose of ads.

To lose support in battleground states?

If that's the case then team Hillary is doing a bang up job

[Dr. Arch]

I'd rather have the Swedish octopus around than this guy, really.

[Yank2133]

You have a very poor understanding of the purpose of ads.

To lose support in battleground states?

If that's the case then team Hillary is doing a bang up job

lol

Ad spending is a major reason why she is going to win. She carpet bombed VA and PA early with ads  and it is one reason why those states are off the table.

[Southern Delegate matthew27]

SO I guess America may very well elect a insulting piece of low life scum like Trump. Kind of explains all the thugs in this world.  My opinion of humanity will be very low indeed.

[Alcon]

Are traditional campaign ads in the internet age becoming irrelevant?

No.  Why would they become irrelevant "in the age of internet"?  Video presentations are some of the most effective in pushing voter opinion.  Internet pre-roll ads and things like that are great, and can be more precisely targeted, but plenty of voters aren't regular enough consumers of internet-based media to hit with those.

[DrScholl]

Until the actual results are in, we don't know how effective the ads were.

[Virginiá]

You have a very poor understanding of the purpose of ads.

To lose support in battleground states?

If that's the case then team Hillary is doing a bang up job

Ads work best when the candidates are not so well known. Both Trump and Clinton are already very well-defined. I honestly don't quite understand why Clinton is spending so much on ads when it is so lopsided, but then again, they probably play a role in helping shape the race in some areas. Personally I think even more money in GOTV may be better in some states than excessive ad spending, but that's just me I suppose. If Clinton had (even secretly) pushed for reform to felony disenfranchisement in 2014 (FL), she could have set the stage in 2016 with a huge surge of black voters in Florida, which makes a hell of a difference. There are many ways she could have helped herself with a little forethought, but alas, that was not to be.

No candidate can really expect to win/control an election on ads alone. That's just not how it works. Not with two candidates that are almost universally known and come with preexisting, hardened opinions. Just because she is outspending him bigly doesn't mean she is guaranteed a lead.

[Shadows]

The amount invested in ads is startling. The gulf in spending is huge. That & Trump being a pathetic candidate.

This just shows horrible of a candidate Clinton is. She is one of the most unelectable Democrat in the last 70-80 years. I think any decent Democrat would have had a 7-8% margin victory now! The people in these forums, the superpac paid people online trolls are just delusional & will come up with anything to justify their candidate.

If Trump wins, these are the people who are responsible for this - These guys elected Clinton & thus Trump!

[Joe Biden is your president. Deal with it.]

Are traditional campaign ads in the internet age becoming irrelevant?

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/e80b356a03204fff8b260618cb458017/clinton-campaign-raced-through-50-million-last-month

- 35,714 ads
- Stretched across 11 battleground states
- 10 million dollars per week
- Plus an additional 20.6 million from Super PAC Priorities USA

And we get:
OH: T+2.5
FL: T+0.7
IA: T+4.3
NC: T+1.2
GA: T+3.8
VA: C+5.2
AZ: T+2.2
NV: T+2.3
ME2: T+5.2
WI: C+4
MI: C+5.2
PA: C+7.3
CO: C+7.7*

*CO includes polls from early July. If we only use polls from mid-august to now we get 40 - 37 C+3.

With leaners, Clinton now holds a razor thin 272 - 266 EV lead.

Oh great another Trump loser.