Hillary Clinton Caught Buying Hurricane Matthew Ad Spots
Oct 6, 2016 21:31:06 GMT -5
Post by J.J.Gibbs on Oct 6, 2016 21:31:06 GMT -5
Hillary Clinton Caught Buying Hurricane Matthew Ad Spots
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October 6, 2016 by Gary Barnes
\Hillary Clinton may have sunk to a new low (if that’s even possible). The DNC’s struggling campaign is on edge as they’ve been unable to put GOP Presidential candidate, Donald Trump, away. And due to this, they’ve had to resort to some rather exploitative activities.
The Clinton camp is now buying major ad spots on The Weather Channel hoping to garner eyeballs of those Floridians and Carolinians looking for updates with the approaching deadly extreme weather, otherwise known as Hurricane Matthew. Both potential states (Florida and North Carolina) are major battleground states for both Clinton and Trump.
A source listed on Politico discovered the troubling endeavor.
But the Clinton camp is refusing to be completely shut out of the conversation: Her team is buying airtime on the Weather Channel in a slew of major Florida media markets.
Clinton is seeking to appeal directly to swing-state voters potentially in the path of Hurricane Matthew and will spend $63,000 to reach Weather Channel viewers there for five days beginning on Thursday, according to a source monitoring TV ad buys. Hurricane Matthew is currently forecast to approach the Florida East Coast late Thursday or on Friday.
At first, this may not sound incredibly troubling. The problem with it, however, is that it’s once again an indicator that Clinton will exploit people in need. And when the DNC was called out on it, Clinton’s camp attempted to downplay the maneuver with the following statement.
“Over the past few days, our campaign made millions of dollars of adjustments and refinements to our TV buys on dozens of different cable stations in markets all across the battleground states,” said Clinton campaign spokesman Jesse Ferguson. “The Weather Channel represented less than one percent of that spending. These shifts were part of our regular updates to maximize efficiency, effectiveness and reach of our ad buy.”
The Clinton camp is desperate to find a way to secure an election they firmly believed to be an unlosable proposition for almost a year. But Donald Trump has been relentless in influencing independent voters to push for change. Trump now represents the “outsider” and Clinton is having a difficult time shaking her “insider” persona. Buying ads in natural disaster spots may not help her all that much in terms of cleaning up her image.
President Obama didn’t miss the party, either. Although kept away from Florida to help with Hillary’s campaign, it didn’t stop him from calling into local Miami radio to help campaign for her. Good to know D.C.’s “insiders” have priorities in the right places.
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October 6, 2016 by Gary Barnes
\Hillary Clinton may have sunk to a new low (if that’s even possible). The DNC’s struggling campaign is on edge as they’ve been unable to put GOP Presidential candidate, Donald Trump, away. And due to this, they’ve had to resort to some rather exploitative activities.
The Clinton camp is now buying major ad spots on The Weather Channel hoping to garner eyeballs of those Floridians and Carolinians looking for updates with the approaching deadly extreme weather, otherwise known as Hurricane Matthew. Both potential states (Florida and North Carolina) are major battleground states for both Clinton and Trump.
A source listed on Politico discovered the troubling endeavor.
But the Clinton camp is refusing to be completely shut out of the conversation: Her team is buying airtime on the Weather Channel in a slew of major Florida media markets.
Clinton is seeking to appeal directly to swing-state voters potentially in the path of Hurricane Matthew and will spend $63,000 to reach Weather Channel viewers there for five days beginning on Thursday, according to a source monitoring TV ad buys. Hurricane Matthew is currently forecast to approach the Florida East Coast late Thursday or on Friday.
At first, this may not sound incredibly troubling. The problem with it, however, is that it’s once again an indicator that Clinton will exploit people in need. And when the DNC was called out on it, Clinton’s camp attempted to downplay the maneuver with the following statement.
“Over the past few days, our campaign made millions of dollars of adjustments and refinements to our TV buys on dozens of different cable stations in markets all across the battleground states,” said Clinton campaign spokesman Jesse Ferguson. “The Weather Channel represented less than one percent of that spending. These shifts were part of our regular updates to maximize efficiency, effectiveness and reach of our ad buy.”
The Clinton camp is desperate to find a way to secure an election they firmly believed to be an unlosable proposition for almost a year. But Donald Trump has been relentless in influencing independent voters to push for change. Trump now represents the “outsider” and Clinton is having a difficult time shaking her “insider” persona. Buying ads in natural disaster spots may not help her all that much in terms of cleaning up her image.
President Obama didn’t miss the party, either. Although kept away from Florida to help with Hillary’s campaign, it didn’t stop him from calling into local Miami radio to help campaign for her. Good to know D.C.’s “insiders” have priorities in the right places.
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