Clinton Not Running Super Bowl Ads
EmailABC News’ Kate Snow and Eloise Harper Report: Unlike her opponent, the Clinton campaign has not made a special advertising buy for ads to run during tonight’s Super Bowl game.
"People are much more interested in watching a football game than a political ad," said spokesman Jay Carson.
"There are a lot of non-existent dot com companies who found the Super Bowl to be a very efficient way to burn a lot of money," Carson added wryly.
Clinton continues to run TV ads during regular (non-Super Bowl) programming on local channels in 16 of the 22 states that will vote on Tuesday.
Clinton is also spending millions for an hour of time on the Hallmark channel tomorrow night to host a townhall-style meeting. Voters will participate via 22 uplinks from cities in Super Tuesday states across the country.
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Super Bowl ads have to be catchy and fun. People probably don’t want to see substance presented in a Super Bowl ad. Spending millions on the Hallmark hour gives people a chance to ask questions and find out where Hillary stands on their specific concerns. With Hillary, it’s all about substance and not about fluff and flash.
Posted by: mary | February 3, 2008, 3:35 pm 3:35 pm
The majority of those under 30 don’t know much about politics, that’s why Obama always dominates their vote! Think about it; it’s a simple truth. Those who know more, no doubt, usually vote for Hillary. Unfamiliarity about his deep-rooted, overwhelming flaws which the News shrouds Obama’s stories in, add to why he’s considered at all. Look into his life and find that he’s not your hope! As it follows, there are all those Obama endorsers, including normally quiet Caroline, who said their children pulled them out to endorse Obama. These endorsers didn’t make an informed decision for themselves!! Let’s see some adults helping Obama of their own initiative – people who have lived through Vietnam, LBJ and other pivotal times of history.
Posted by: GT | February 3, 2008, 3:40 pm 3:40 pm
It is quite insulting to suggest that most of Obama’s supporters are not well versed on substantive issues. I wonder what Hillary supporters see in her policy decisions that allows them to take up this roll-up-your-sleeves and work attitude. What are you rolling-your-sleeves and working on?
Mandating Healthcare
Getting us into Iraq
Refusing to teach the uber-wealthy in proportion with their income
I guess Kerry, Kennedy and the host of theres do not understand Obama’s policy. LOL.
Yes We Can! and yes we will…
Posted by: Brando | February 3, 2008, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm
Thank you Hillary.. Shows me your Smart..
We need a break from the Nation’s problem’s, and the Super Bowl is just the ticket.. I’d rather watch the game, and a Beer commercial, then a Political Add.. You got my vote!!! HILLARY IN 09 !!!
Posted by: J.Murphy, CA. | February 3, 2008, 3:54 pm 3:54 pm
I thought Fox said no political ads?
This just shows she doesn’t have the money to run a Super Bowl add. She’s raised 10 million last quarter, but won’t release how much she’s raised in January, because it doesn’t come close to Obama’s 32 million.
Posted by: dionysus | February 3, 2008, 4:03 pm 4:03 pm
As for myself, I spent huge amounts of reading, watching, thinking, before deciding who will get my vote. I am well over 50 years old and I found Barack Obama to be the very best option on many accounts.
Wish you do as much and informed choice as I did.
Posted by: J. Perez Acosta | February 3, 2008, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm
Just a follow up thought, as proof there is a definite bias against all things Hill.
The first Iowa primary to be won by an african-american was the talk and rage of all media outlets for 5 days. You would have thought Mary & Joseph had popped in from the Inn with a new born baby brother for Jesus. It was non-stop. It was covered until you could memorize the chanting and the ‘dream and hope’ speech. It was a beauty, that speech. Such words. He is famous for words.
Then, 5 days later, we have a big reversal of fortunes, according to the polls and it’s All-Obama-All-The-Time anyway, despite losing. How could we have been so wrong. If he just would have gotten more turnout in the college towns. Where did his message go astray? Or did it? Was there a white racial backlash once in the booth? Are there too few black folks in New Hampshire to help over come the racism that has shown itself here tonight? Well, Obama only lost by 2 pts and he was down some 20pts (before he had even announced he was running – go figure). He almost pulled it off. Obama is on an upswing nonetheless. Obama. Obama. Obama. Obama, O—-
Folks, how about the fact, that for the first time in our 232 year history, a woman has won a state primary!
How about the fact that this woman, the first First Lady to ever run for office, win, and then get re-elected, has now won the first State Primary, seeking the nomination, to become the first female president in the history of the nation?
What about THAT momumental story, from an historical standpoint?
Not one damn story. Not one damn headline. No one on any MSM channel stood back, despite their disgust with Clinton, to admire the fact that the nation had just made history and we were all around to see it. We can now remember and say, I was there. We can look our daughters right in the eyes and mean it when we say to them, YES, YOU CAN.
But instead its ‘YES, WE CAN’ instead of ‘YES She DID’
ALL-OBAMA-ALL-THE-TIME.
Posted by: 2009 Where Are You? | February 3, 2008, 4:06 pm 4:06 pm
Voting for Senator Obama is indirectly voting for GOP. Again, DEM will lose the White House to GOP in similarly to 4 four years ago if Senator Obama is nominated. We need a leader with experience at least we know to lead the country after 7 years of hopeless. Senator Obama could be U.S President in the future but for sure he is not and will not ready in 2009.
Posted by: Lynn | February 3, 2008, 4:12 pm 4:12 pm
The perfect superbowl add for Hillary would be a clip of the 1992 Presidential debate with R. Perot, B. Clinton and Bush, Sr. When asked what the difference between the candidates were:
Bush, Sr: If you have to separate it out, experience (is the difference between us).
Clinton: Experience counts, but it’s not everything. …Values, judgment, and the record I’ve amassed in my state should count for something….You can have the right kind of experience and the wrong kind of experience.
Values? What a joke.
Judgment, questionable.
Move forward to 2008:
Clinton: I am the experienced candidate. Vote for me.
Yeah, the wrong kind of experience.
Posted by: Cheryl | February 3, 2008, 4:56 pm 4:56 pm
Obama claims he’s about change…SCREAMS CHANGE everywhere he goes, yet, when it serves his political interests, he accepts the endorsment of one of the most entreched , corrupt political families this nation has ever seen. Afamily that represents the same old thing in Washshington. If Obama was truely about “CHANGE” he would have rebuffed the endorsment and shown the world that “Change” really is in the air- yet, we’ve seen Obama’s true colors; do anything,say anything to get elected. The Obama kool-aid drinkers and the media continue to give him a pass. As far as OPRAH is concerned, the person who wants to be leader of the free world is rolling out a woman who is best known for her book clubs and pulling a wagon of fat onto her stage in an effort to show the world what was in her body after her liquid diet. PATHETIC! Obama scares me. He knows how to lie to and manipulate people in the most subtle way.
Posted by: jen | February 3, 2008, 5:02 pm 5:02 pm
Obama is a predatory mortgage broker who sells false hope. If he is successful, America will be foreclosed.
Posted by: Paul Green | February 3, 2008, 5:20 pm 5:20 pm
GT wrote – “Think about it; it’s a simple truth. Those who know more, no doubt, usually vote for Hillary.”
Think again GT, according to polls and voting Obama does much better than Clinton with people that are well educated. Clinton does better with people that are less educated.
The more that people learn about Obama the more Hillary fades in polls.
Posted by: gabe | February 3, 2008, 5:24 pm 5:24 pm
OBAMA 08
its evident you can not debate the fact that I was stating a fact about the sheer hypocritical nature of the campaign OBAMA is running. HE is a BS artist plain and simple JUST LIKE THE REST OF THEM.
Those that have a shread of interest in the issues or this country will not elect this fraud. He is nothing more than a snake oil salesman.
Posted by: jen | February 3, 2008, 5:32 pm 5:32 pm
For political meat, I am tuning into Hillary’s Town Hall Meeting on Monday night. For entertainment, I’ll check out Barak’s ad during the Super Bowl.
Posted by: Liz | February 3, 2008, 6:10 pm 6:10 pm
I haven’t seen a political ad yet all day, and I have had the TV on all day….any ads on during the football game are a “potty break” or a “go grab some more munchies break”……
GO, PATRIOTS!!!!!!
Posted by: Get America Back On Track | February 3, 2008, 7:29 pm 7:29 pm
I haven’t seen a political ad yet all day, and I have had the TV on all day….any ads on during the football game are a “potty break” or a “go grab some more munchies break”……
GO, PATRIOTS!!!!!!
Posted by: Get America Back On Track | February 3, 2008, 7:31 pm 7:31 pm
i am looking forward to the ad – anything to keep the clintons out of the oval office !
Posted by: one more for obama | February 3, 2008, 8:00 pm 8:00 pm
Cheryl; thank you for pointing out how Obama is using Bill Clinton’s ’92 campaign strategy. He is also using the United Farm Workers mantra “Si Se Puede” along with the Kennedy connection, even though Hillary has it too. It’s a very good point. Obama cannot even commit to voting, I guess he needs someone to copy on that matter. We know nothing about Obama. We do know that Hillary has a record of getting policy through that benefits the majority of Americans. Yes I know Obama keeps pushing his ethics reform accomplishment, because I was really worried about whom Greenpeace was taking out to lunch. Yet, it isn’t enough experience for me to want to waste my vote for a mimic. Hillary ’08
Posted by: irma | February 3, 2008, 8:21 pm 8:21 pm
Hey Gabe; CNN, MSNBC and Fox are the only ones pushing that theory and repeating it. Real pollsters have made no such connection because it is highly varied. So we’re supposed to believe that the older generation of college graduates is not as educated as his college student supporters? Very unlikely….In fact we’re older thus wiser and young enough, with young kids, and still very involved in choosing our leader. Try again in 2016, although a lot of us will barely be nearing 50, so we may still put up a fight, depending on who we like.
Posted by: irma | February 3, 2008, 8:31 pm 8:31 pm
Irma wrote:
“Yet, it isn’t enough experience for me to want to waste my vote for a mimic. Hillary ’08″
Wake up, Hillary is mimicking Bush!
Now that’s a frightening thought.
It’s not enough to vote for Hillary because of her “experience.” It’s actually a good reason not too.
If you want to know what Obama stands for. Do what I did. Research all the candidates, including their U.S. Senate records, state records and past services. But perhaps you don’t want to know. The Clinton’s past is nothing to feel good about.
Posted by: Cheryl | February 3, 2008, 9:51 pm 9:51 pm
gabe, i see you parroted, as do so many obamaites, the rhetoric about us hillary supporters being uneducated. parroting spoon-fed rhetoric does reveal something about the person doing the parroting, but i will leave it to you to think about that one. btw, i have a law degree from a prestigious university and achieved it magna cum laude and law review and order of the coif (look it up), like your pal obama, so i’m hardly a dolt. and i earned mine with no politicking. but i know they say we’re beer drinkers and obama supporters are wine drinkers and, yes, you have me there.
Posted by: so saddened | February 4, 2008, 12:54 am 12:54 am
Mark my words Dems, if we elect Sen. Obama we will lose the Whitehouse. Can someone name me the last liberal Dem to win the Whitehouse? Don’t you think the Reps are looking forward to the Sen. Obama nomination? How can Sen. Obama claim to be a uniter and not a divider compare to Sen. McClain when Sen. McCain created two of the most difficult bills with Sen. Feingold and Sen. Kennedy? I am against the war but at the same time we are there and as sad as it sounds I agree with Sen. McCain that we can’t leave the country. We messed up Iraq and unfortunately this President will make everybody pay for his mistake including all of our children and even grandchildren. Sen. Obama is making the argument that Clinton is going to rally the Rep party, what about the next president nominating Supreme Court Justices, do you think the Reps are willing to lose their small majority without a fight? I also don’t think that Sen. Obama can win Southern States in the general election. The last northener to win the presidency was JFK and he had a strong VP in LBJ. The last two Dem presidents were CLinton and Carter and both were from the South. Unfortunately, I don’t think the Dems will win the Whitehouse without Sen. Clinton.
Posted by: Angel | February 4, 2008, 3:20 pm 3:20 pm
Angel said it all.
Posted by: A reader in Georgia | February 4, 2008, 7:22 pm 7:22 pm