{"id":1349,"date":"2012-10-09T07:37:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T14:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2012-10-16T07:55:40","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T14:55:40","slug":"hidden-factor-in-the-election-obama-advertising-advantage-ricochet-com-10-09-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/09\/hidden-factor-in-the-election-obama-advertising-advantage-ricochet-com-10-09-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden factor in the election: Obama advertising advantage | Ricochet.com | 10.09.12"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>While, as <a href=\"http:\/\/ricochet.com\/main-feed\/Pew-Romney-Rides-a-12-Point-Swing\" target=\"_blank\">Mollie notes<\/a> below, the just released Pew poll showed a big move of voters producing a convincing Romney advantage, the Rasmussen poll today rates the race tied. \u00a0This was after a post-debate shift that that took Romney from two points down in Rasmussen&#8217;s tracking to as many up. \u00a0The two-point move between yesterday and today is statistical noise, but it left me asking, is something more going on, something we don&#8217;t see?<\/p>\n<p>The answer could be in this <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/9p9w73g\" target=\"_blank\">Wesleyan Media Project analysis<\/a>. \u00a0Here are quotes from the project&#8217;s news release of October 3rd, the day of the first Romney-Obama debate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;In the three-week period since the parties&#8217; national conventions, Barack Obama and his party and interest group allies have continued to dominate the [TV and radio advertising] airwaves in the battleground presidential states&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;From September 9 to September 30, Obama held an ad advantage in 14 of the 15 most advertised markets in the key states of Virginia, Ohio and Florida&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;&#8216;Heavy advertising from the Obama campaign has challenged the assumption that Romney-friendly outside groups would saturate and dominate the airwaves in key markets,&#8217; said Erika Franklin Fowler, co-director of the Wesleyan Media Project.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;In fact, Obama and his allies aired 1,800 more ads than Romney and his allies in Denver; 1,700 more in Norfolk, Virginia; and 1,500 more in in Orlando-all in the last three weeks. &#8216;The heavy Obama advantage may be one reason why polling in battleground states has moved against Romney in recent weeks,&#8217; Fowler said.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While, as Mollie notes below, the just released Pew poll showed a big move of voters producing a convincing Romney advantage, the Rasmussen poll today rates the race tied. \u00a0This was after a post-debate shift that that took Romney from two points down in Rasmussen&#8217;s tracking to as many up. \u00a0The two-point move between yesterday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[91,77,60,55],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politicalcommentary-campaign-2012","tag-ads","tag-election-2012","tag-obama","tag-romney"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}