Breaking: Bloomberg Staffing up to Spend $Millions in Delaware
Bloomberg staffing up to spend a portion of his fortune in Delaware doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Delaware is a state that isn’t positioned to absorb millions of dollars in media spending, nor is it going to loom large in delegates. And yet, Bloomberg is currently spending lavishly to hire a full time staff and peel as many Biden delegates as he can.
“When ya’ got it, flaunt it” comes to mind.
“He’s got a lot more money than sense” also comes to mind.
My sense is that there are only a handful of people in Delaware who can run a decent campaign. I hope whoever he gets is able to retire after this dalliance.
The entire idea puts his judgment into question. We have almost no delegates and Biden will probably get 75-80% of the popular vote. He’d be better off going the Trump route — just hand out envelopes of cash on the streets of Wilmington and Dover.
And at the bodegas and chicken plants in Sussex? Do yourself a favor and re-read whatever dog-whistle no-no list you can dredge up.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/us/politics/trump-black-voters-cash.html
Next time, maybe know what you’re talking about before you mount your high horse.
And what little I know about running campaigns, those with money that lock up the local radio media ad time early have a huge advantage nearer to the election.
In this case, it wouldn’t help Bloomberg but it would hurt down ballot campaigns that couldn’t get the ad time he’s usurped.
Campaigns of Chris Coons (county) and Weldin Stewart (insurance) bought radio ad time in quantities that blocked other candidate from buying them as they got more money closer to the elections, as I recall.
Don’t know if facebook or print media have that same limiting factor.
Not a bad thing if it hurts wealthy a-hole incumbents and helps hard-working, door knocking insurgents.
My experience was along the lines of once a decent challenger got some cash and was ready to buy WDEL, the bigger monied camps had locked up all the air time.
We did wind up in 2018 being told one of my favorite lines: “The Internet is completely bought up”, so that can definitely be a real thing.
Get to the storm cellar, kids. It’s a snarknado.
Radio stations must offer candidates the lowest ad rate they offer to any of their other advertisers, so no matter how few ads a political campaign buys, it pays the low rate that goes to big accounts that get volume discounts.
If you’re buying radio, it’s to reach people who don’t use computers. I heard a Bloomberg ad on Philly’s classic rock station on my drive home from Pa. the other night, so he’s leaving no dollar unspent on his ego trip.