another. campaign spending in these off-year elections as we call the midterms sometimes is off the charts and following the dollars from our washington bureau is cnn senior political editor mark preston and from the campaign media analysis group evan tracy. mark, you wrote about this in your column today. 182 million dollars. for people not following these numbers very closely, $182 million spent on campaign ads not this campaign. this past week. just this past week. a 17% increase from the previous week. anyone that doesn t think politics is big business is fooling themselves. ad-makers here in washington, d.c., local television states across the country are making lots of money off of this election. again, what the candidates are hoping, by spending all of that money, is that they can win. they can push enough voters at the very end to come out and support them. what the interest groups who are spending lots of this money hope they can do is influence the election and get their ca
on the campaign trail in florida. he s trying to shore up support for democratic candidate kendrick meeks there who is running a distant third right now. meek has been running behind republican/tea party candidate mark rubio and republican turned independent former, or governor charlie crist. the road trip, the rally, the meet and greet, that s clearly one way to campaign, even for some of us who like things the way they used to be. it almost seems quaint and archaic compared to flooding the airwaves. campaign spending in these off year elections is off the charts. these ones specifically. following the dollars in our washington bureau is cnn senior political editor mark preston, from the campaign media analysis group. next to him is our good friend evan tracy. good to see you, guys. thanks for being with us. mark you wrote about this in your column today. struck by the number $182
democrats. maybe trying to push back here. mark, what do you got? tony, you said, 13 days, right to election day. if you turn on the tv in certain states, including las vegas, nevada, all you re going to see is political ads. in fact, just in the past week, nationwide 182 million dollars spent on television ads for politicians and for interest groups. what i ve done, taken a quk snapshot at las vegas. we ll have our photojournalist come in and take a quick look at the story on cnnpolitics.com. just last week, tony. if you were to turn on the tv, two out of seven days was just straight political ads. 50 hours of political ads were on tv. so as you can see, the airwaves are cluttered. clearly interest groups and candidates are spending a lot of money to try to influence this election. more next hour. we ll break down the numbers more and i ll kick it back to paul. a busy afternoon ahead. talk about a couple things
new cap would have on those relief wells. so far between 92 million and 182 million gallons of oil have believed to have spewed into the gulf. i just keep seeing it you can t even understand how big that is. it s beyond. those in the area are obviously fed up with the constant delays. this has bent final day. they have give up us final days for how many times now? we don t want any answers. we want a solution. the answers they are giving us aren t the truth. megyn: the oil spill has hit peach beaches from texas to florida and decimated the fishing industry. last hour we showed you the outrage over the plan to start teaching children sex ed in kindergarten when they aren as young as 5. parents packing a school board
surprising. you ve got goldman sachs paying $16 billion, bank of america paying, what, $4 billion, just to its investment bank, and aig paying $100 million. it is true, we have put $182 million into that company. it s just one of those things, i wonder whether the media says people are outraged. so you re taking the pro-bonus position? i m not even saying the number is so small. we ve been looking for someone all morning to take that position. it s not even that i m pro, i just don t know this amount is causing issues around the country. and to unwind the situation of aig, to have any hope of recouping some of the $182.3 billion american taxpayers have been put in, you want to have people that are going to work 24 hours a day and bust their you know what to get aig in a position where some of that money can be paid back.