A New, Stupid Ad
By krempasky Posted in FEC — Comments (11) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
You'll notice a new advertiser here at RedState. Some bunch of yahoos working off the premise that for six dollars a person, we can finance elections. Do the math.
I just wanted to point out the irony of a political advocacy ad with the text "NOT FOR SALE" and ad that it's worth considering this fact: they just spent $500 on that message.
For the record - this policy idea is one of the dumbest ever. It will never pass. It should never pass. It's potentially the worst thing I can imagine happening to our election system - the complete removal of any market or jury forces from the selection of appropriate and viable political ideas. Well, then again - you're sure to get more Kossacks running - and if it's them taking up "D" lines on ballots, I might have to reconsider.
Update [2006-3-8 17:20:35 by krempasky]: Finally - on taking the ad at all. Here's my committment: I will donate whatever portion of that revenue I get to Tom Coburn's re-election campaign. Cha ching.
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If the left wanted to really reduce the costs of elections, they'd get their friends in the media to lower the cost for buying ads.
Oh wait, the left wants to just complain about the costs of campaigns, but they want to benefit from all the money that comes from advertising candidates.
The MSM is already providing the libs with an incalculable amount of free advertising... so anything they can do to restrict the amount of media time that can actually be bought is a win for them.
Did the math. It looks like they're going off the FEC data for the 2004 election found here.
Rounded to the nearest million, the spending on 2004 federal campaigns looks like this:
$600M spent on presidential campaigns
$912M spent on House and Senate campaigns
$8M spent on special elections
$197M spent by losing primaries candidates
for a total of about $1.7 billion.
Divided by the US population of roughly 295 million, that works out to, well, just under six bucks a head.
They did their math right, at least, even if there's little else they've got right.
I'll make it a point to click thru several time a day if that's the case...
How can I tell a blog ad from a google ad?
For some reason, Amnesty International wanted to buy a BlogAd on my site. I figured, What the heck. That's $10 less they have to spend in places where they'll get attention.
We're deciding whether to accept it.
Free speech is free speech is free speech.
As long as the ad itself stays within the boundaries of good taste that you have set for the site, I don't have any problem ignoring their ad. :)
Why would a website owner in Georgia give money to a Senator in Oklahoma?
Better that $500 goes to RedState than $500 actually going to getting that silly legislation passed.