$575 Million Spent on Presidential Ads-- So far!!

Who knew presidential advertising costed so much? Obama and Romney have been spending millions of dollars on presidential ads in the twelve swing states since March 19th. The twelve swing states and their ad totals are:

1. Florida --$117.4 million
2. Ohio --$112.1 million
3. Virginia --$85.7 million
4. North Carolina --$56.5 million
5. Colorado --$54.2 million
6. Iowa --$46.6 million
7. Nevada --$38.2 million
8. New Hampshire --$25.3 million
9. Pennsylvania --$19.3 million
10. Wisconsin --$8.1 million
11. Michigan --$8 million
12. Minnesota --$3.2 million

So as you can see Florida, Ohio, and Virginia are the top three states. Obama is leading in Florida and Ohio and Romney is leading in Virginia, but not by much.

Here is one of the ads from the Romney campaign:

Here is some of the infamous slandering that we have all encountered during past presidential elections. Now for an ad from the Obama campaign:



Obama has had help with these ads from the super PACs. The super PACs are companies that raise money to work with (or against) presidential candidates (this is new information to me).

These ads may help each candidate get exposure in swing states, but I think they could be doing something more productive with the millions of dollars they are wasting on ads that make each other look bad. Instead of wasting that money to destroy each other's reputations, they should use that money to fund some sort of small community project in the swing states.

To see where I found my information feel free to click this link. Here is another link that provided an anaylsis of the presidential ads.