CNN: More than $65 million was spent on 161,203 ads that targeted Pelosi

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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/08/anti-pelosi-ads-break-records/#more-134383

Washington (CNN) - More money was spent and more commercials were run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in this midterm election cycle than against any other congressional leader since Newt Gingrich.

More than $65 million was spent on 161,203 ads that targeted Pelosi from January 1 through last week's election, according to a new analysis of TV ads for CNN by Campaign Media Analysis Group.

"Not since 1996 and Newt Gingrich has a speaker been the target of so many elections ads, candidates, groups and party ads from the GOP put Pelosi front and center in the midterms" says Evan Tracey, CMAG's president and CNN's consultant on TV advertising.

The game plan by the GOP, individual campaigns, and independent groups that backed Republican candidates and causes, was simple: Tie as many Democratic incumbents and candidates to Pelosi, one of the most unpopular political figures in America right now. According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation national poll conducted the weekend before the midterms, only 26 percent of Americans had a favorable opinion of the House Speaker, with 53 percent saying they had an unfavorable view of Pelosi.

"In 1996, Gingrich was targeted in a similar fashion, but in the 1996 election spending represented about a third of what is spent now, so it's possible as a percentage the total spent against Gingrich would be similar to that spent against Pelosi, but her image was used in a negative way in a unprecedented scale," adds Tracey.

According to the CMAG analysis, individual campaigns accounted for nearly have of the $65 million, with independent groups that supported GOP candidates and issues spending more than $22 million and the Republican party chipping in more than $8 million.

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1. And she still won...

Democrats just don't get it... :rofl: :rofl:

[notesdev]

3. It's not in her own race most of them ran

They were run against candidates who were not Nancy Pelosi, but for many of them the association was enough to be fatal.

[HopeHoops]

2. Didn't she score like 80% in her election?

Money well spent. :rofl:

[Occam Bandage]

6. They weren't run in her district.

Pelosi was used as a hammer to bludgeon Democrats coast to coast, to great success.

This one was run hundreds of times in my district: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4IVQ8GWtls

[indepat]

4. Local pub ads slimed Nancy as the tarring and feathering process ended

:shrug:

[hollowdweller]

5. Pelosi

Should say she's the "65 Millian Dollar Woman" and then explain and then rattle off how many jobs that money could have created if it was loaned out or what it could have bought that would uplift society. Sort of use it as an example of how our priorities are all wrong.

I mean hell if they can continually go on about the cost of travel and other items of the dems the waste of money used on that type of stuff surely is fair game.