Wisconsin no. 1 senate ad producer in country

[PeaceNikki]

http://badgerherald.com/news/2010/10/14/wisconsin_no_1_senat.php

Wisconsin was ranked first in the country for political advertising for the increasingly competitive Senate race, with more Senate ads running in Wisconsin between Sept. 1 and Oct. 7 than any other state in the country, according to a report released this week by the Wesleyan Media Project at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.

“Given the record spending this year, one has to wonder whether the campaigns have no-limit credit cards,” Travis Ridout, co-director of the Wesleyan Media Project, said in a statement. “With all of the ads showing up on their television screens, many Americans must be thinking that it is already the first week of November.”

According to the report, 18,256 Senate ads ran in Wisconsin during the five-week time period tracked in the report, passing the next runner-up, Nevada, which had 17,777 ads in the same period. Nevada is also in a close race, with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid trying to defend his seat.

Approximately 57 percent of those ads were in support of the Republican senatorial candidate, businessman Ron Johnson. Incumbent Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., was supported in 43 percent of the ads.

According to the report, the ads have been financed by reported spending habits encompassing nearly $7 million combined between the two candidates.

[mzteris]

1. And that creep Ron Johnson

has most of them! Every time I turn on the tv (which admittedly isn't often) or pass by a tv somewhere - there's a stupid damn ad with him on. He's so freaking weird looking and I hate every damn lie that comes out of his mouth. I feel slightly sick to my stomach every time.

Then there's the radio commercials - the two old ladies who won't "vote for Russ again".... I am SO TIRED of hearing their blather!

[PeaceNikki]

3. In the one ad he says something about "getting off of his 'rear-end'"

REAR-END!?!?!?

Really?

gross

[RevCheesehead]

2. I was horrified

when I found a Ron Johnson ad playing on PHOTOBUCKET!!! :scared:

[PeaceNikki]

4. He's gross.

:puke:

[devereaux]

5. Saturday ads

The republicans and their anonymous bankrollers are really hurting up the intensity on the negative campaigning here Saturday morning. Every break from college football has ads trashing Feingold and Barrett.

Scott Walker's ads are particularly negative