How Much Does It Cost To Topple Pelosi? $65 Million.
LatestSince January 1, 161,203 ads have aired targeting Speaker Nancy Pelosi. They cost a total of $65 million, a record-breaking figure, according to CNN. That managed to topple Pelosi’s majority, if not her leadership. Money was less effective elsewhere.
Commissioned by CNN, the Campaign Media Analysis Group crunched the numbers and found that although Democrats ran against Gingrich in 1996, back then “election spending represented about a third of what is spent now, so it’s possible as a percentage the total spent against Gingrich would be similar to that spent against Pelosi.”
But anyone running against Pelosi had particular ammunition: the president of CMAG added that Pelosi “image was used in a negative way in a unprecedented scale.” Whyever would that work so well? We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Nothing terrifies the “I want my country back” crowd quite so much as the prospect of a San Francisco woman and a foreign-sounding black man running the show.