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This Week In Third Party Ad Spending: The Health Care Tsunami

By Michael Scherer | @michaelscherer | March 15, 2010 | +

If you don’t want to hear any more about health care this week, you may have to do more than just avoid Swampland. Third party groups are coming out in force, on both sides of the issue, targeting national cable audiences and key congressional districts. The specific sources of funding for many of the ads has not been disclosed. Here is a sample.

From the U.S. Chamber of Commerce:

From Progressive Change, Democracy for America, and Credo Action (their whip count here):

From Americans United For Change:

From the American Future Fund:

From Americans for Stable Quality Care:

Americans for Prosperity:

Note: All of these groups are expected to be paying for ads this week, but we don’t yet know which ads will be run where.

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  • nflfoghorn

    And thanks to the SCOTUS, we don’t need to know who’s behind these ads.

  • Ivy_B

    Just imagine what kind of real health care we could have if all the lobbying and advertising money were devoted to something like actual patient care or drugs. Of course it still wouldn’t get us to the level of the rest of the world, but at least it would make more of a mark than any of these ads will.

    I view these like the pieces of paper that workers push into your hands before you go into the polling place. Not going to change any minds after all this time.

  • lcky9

    Like you can’t figure it out? the only ones I even listen to are ones without Obama’s voice or face.. those I mute just like he mutes what the majority of the people want..

    Let’s see a majority is a good thing so he can win the election but a bad thing when the people say NO to his agenda.. what a farce this government has turned out to be first Bush now Obama both stink

  • nflfoghorn

    Sounds like you agree with their decision. I didn’t mention anything about who’s in office at all. It’s clear however that neither your voice nor mine carries any weight–nay, less than zero–thanks to the Supremes.

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