This is a class blog for the students of POLSCI 426: Congressional Politics at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
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This article ties in with some of our discussion during out last class. It discusses the amount of adds being played in Nevada and other cities as well as how the GOP is spending more money, probably due to the fact that they are the challengers as we learned in class.
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Today while watching the news, the whole commercial break was all ads for the up coming election. I found it rather entertaining because I was watching it with some coworkers, and most of the ads did not even state what position the candidates were running for. It is funny to watch how each candidate portrays the other and how much money goes into a 30 second commercial.
I am not going to lie, I am sick of politcal ads. I can turn them TV, but now they are everywhere. I can't watch a youtube video with out a gosh darn Walker or Johnson ad coming on.
I found it rather ironic this week that while reading an article on the New York Times website about the overwhelming amount of ads that are clogging up the airwaves this year, one such political ad was playing to the side of the article.
I admit that quite a long time has passed since I started "tuning out" every time I see another political ad. Although this article argues that there are still a number of undecided voters out there who may be influenced by these ads, isn't there some point at which the running of political ads simply becomes over-saturation and completely ceases to be effective, even upon undecided voters?
What's interesting to me here is comparing this article with the "Don't Follow the Money" article which was published just two days before. This article points towards the democrats having spent more, which directly contradicts this article. Maybe the GOP really upped it's game since Oct. 7, but after reading the other article the question is, why? Why so much spending if it's not influencing so much. My only guess is that it's necessary to merely to stay in the game. How would caps on spending, as there are in other countries, effect our political outcomes?
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