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Re: All political ads running on Google in the US

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Post by j1mmie »

pembrook wrote: post #30

Democrat, Republican, or Independent, Google gets rich either way. You can clearly see price per view has gone up dramatically from the historical comparison. $2B in Google ad spend so far this cycle. Also interesting, the New York Times is the most viewed ad of this election season, having been seen 10M+ times. It appears the only true winners of US presidential election mania are Google and the Media.

In the age of information warfare, ads are a weapon and Google is the modern day Colt. If you sell guns to the North, the South needs more guns from you. If you sell to the criminals, the cops need more guns from you.

Not sure what this is called but it's definitely not "don't be evil"

Re: All political ads running on Google in the US

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Post by matsemann »

kldx wrote: post #34
matsemann wrote: post #7

In Norway it's forbidden with political ads on TV . Reasoning being that live images can have a huge influence, while also possibly being inflammatory and dumb down the debate. But main reason mainly is that it would give those with enough money to afford these "expensive tv ads" a leg up. However, this law hasn't been updated in decades. So it's still only TV ads that's illegal. So it feels like a quite arbitrary re…

How are TV ads any different from MDG posters or the AP ads at bus stops? We allow the latter in Norway and they're not that much cheaper than TV ads.

They're different as in a video can influence you much stronger than a poster. But maybe you misunderstood me, my point was that the way we have it today isn't necessarily good either. Just curious about how one can give people good information, without it being too inflammatory, and without making an election a race about who has the most money.

Re: All political ads running on Google in the US

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Post by acomjean »

matsemann wrote: post #7

In Norway it's forbidden with political ads on TV . Reasoning being that live images can have a huge influence, while also possibly being inflammatory and dumb down the debate. But main reason mainly is that it would give those with enough money to afford these "expensive tv ads" a leg up. However, this law hasn't been updated in decades. So it's still only TV ads that's illegal. So it feels like a quite arbitrary re…

Kind of new in the US, you can't stop people in the US from spending money on ads that amplify there speech. [1]

Political spending is regulated, but we now have "political action committees" that can support candidates but can't coordinate with them. They can accept money from anyone in any amounts. Its brought tons of money from wealthy doners into polics in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

Comedey Centrals Colbert Report (Colbert playing a Conservative pundit) once set one a PAC with a political lawyer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colbert_Super_PAC

I'm not a lawyer..

As someone who is "swing state adjacent", and avoiding them mostly this year, I feel for those under the crush of political ads.

Re: All political ads running on Google in the US

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Post by lucianbr »

Dwedit wrote: post #6
Dig1t wrote: post #3

Am I reading this wrong or does it seem like the majority of these are for Harris/Democrats?

When one campaign raises 3 times as much money as the other campaign, that tends to happen.

Interesting that money is considered to have a large influence on US elections, one side has a lot more money, and yet the race is incredibly close.

Re: All political ads running on Google in the US

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swatcoder wrote: post #28
lysace wrote: post #16

From the insights tab, with a date range of the past year, the state where the second most ad money was spent was California (after Pennsylvania). California is not even close to being a swing state, afaik?

California is strongly "blue" on the national issues these days, but that doesn't mean that there aren't hotly contested elections and ballot measures at issue within the state. Seperately, it brings potential as a source of funding to spend elsewhere specifically because some of the national questions aren't really open. If you are confident in the ROI, you can run ads there to drive fundraising -- especially early…

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