Obama Spends Millions More Than GOP Campaigns
On spending for the November Presidential elections comes this Associated Press article regarding President Obama campaign:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The costly Republican primary has been draining Mitt Romney’s wallet and giving President Barack Obama time to build an expansive campaign architecture with offices in 45 states and hundreds of employees.
The bad news for Obama is he’s had to start paying for all this now.
Obama has spent more than $135 million — more than GOP challengers Romney and Rick Santorum combined — on his re-election apparatus, according to an Associated Press analysis of Federal Election Commission records. That sets up his campaign to be larger and geographically more diverse than any of his opponents’ organizations.
Through the first two months of the year, Obama spent approximately $1.1 million on computer equipment, $435,000 on rent and utilities, $305,000 on telephones and $19,000 on office supplies, according to federal reports.
Republican contenders Romney and Santorum have been watching their expenses during the GOP primaries, relying on a fraction of the amount Obama can spend on essentials like ad spending, travel fees and utility bills. But Obama’s campaign has its eye on spending by Republican-leaning “super” political action committees, which can accept unlimited and effectively anonymous contributions from billionaires, corporations and others.
This is Obama’s most recent economic stimlus plan.
I thought that was a typical modern business strategy: Lousy sales? Increase the marketing budget.
It’s more sophisticated than that. When the buyers aren’t liking the product, increase the volume of the message and insist that the product is what they want. Repeat often enough and the message becomes the accepted wisdom. The customers have to be told what it is that they need and want. That’s marketing 101. Voters are more susceptible to that pitch because they tend to vote their fears rather than their own best economic self interest. How else can we understand Reagan, Bush I and II and Clinton the second time around? The coming Presidential election has the added complexity of the worst Republican field and effort in many years. They’ve adopted a new strategy. Pummel the voters until they are dizzy, dazed and confused. Tell the voters what they want, but in the most blatant and obnoxious manner possible. They’ve lost the art of subtlety. If that works we’re all in a pickle. Even a mule knows when it is being beaten into submission and sits down and refuses to budge. Is the Republican voter smarter than that? If not, let’s hope that the more average American is.
Jack: They’ve lost the art of subtlety.
They did not lose it. They made it unnecessary with their talk radio who’s language and manor moved slowly into the mainstream with Fox News morning shows and evening shows which was then copied by CNN and MSNBC (Morning Joe) do to ratings.
It’s a plan…man!
The bad news for Obama is he’s had to start paying for all this now.
Obama has spent more than $135 million — more than GOP challengers Romney and Rick Santorum combined — on his re-election apparatus
$135 million already spent on merely the “apparatus” of propaganda, before the real re-election campaign has even begun. And people wonder why it’s impossible to get any traction for candidates that aren’t bought-and-paid for shills of corporate America.
Of course, we could switch to 100% publicly financed elections and require the media networks to provide free airtime that (in theory) belongs to the public anyway, but… that’s SOCIALISM! And it infringes on CORPORATE FREE SPEECH!