you so much. you need to going to gogh state by state and race by race to fully understand the midterm landscape. no matter where you live in america, odds are you ve turned on the tv and heard something like this. when dan does vote, he votes with nancy pelosi 96% of the time. san francisco already has one vote in congress. it doesn t need ours. now, we have known for some time speaker pelosi is a star in a lot of ads this year. our senior congressional correspondent dana bash is adding it all up and the big picture is stunning. reporter: $42 million. that s a staggering number. $42 million is how much republicans are spending across the country on these tv ads. and that is just so far. we have three weeks to go doing this, attacking democrats and linking them to nancy pelosi. evan tracy, who tracks tv ads at the campaign media analysis group, calculated that for us. he says so far there have been 356 campaign commercials to vilify democrats in this way and
influence, outside group spending money to try to influence midterm elections. give you this number. $53 million has been spent by outside groups on television ads in the last 60 days. most of that money has been spent by organizations to help republicans. only about $7 million has been spent that would help democrats. but what s really eye popping about this and really astounding is 89%, brooke, of all of the ads have been negative ads. what does this mean? it means that the outside groups can be negative, disruptive. they allow the candidate to be a more positive message. got to tell you these numbers are from the campaign media analysis group. the ad guru. he comes up with that word, disruptive. that s what the groups do. $53 million to be mean disruptive, i guess the word you said. gentlemen, thank you.
are only going to spend $7 million? i mean, seriously, folks. of course, the new report you mentioned anywhere from $200 million to $250 million total coming from democrats. the campaign media analysis group says democrats have spent far more on actual advertising than republicans. so you have to wonder where are they getting this money. maybe they are borrowing the money, but i doubt it. megyn: it doesn t seem like if you look at these numbers, it does not seem like democrats are being outspent 7-1 or 8-1. the real issue is the hijacking of our democracy by shadow groups. nobody knows where that money is coming from. it s coming from oil companies and hedge funds. the supposedly grassroots tea party group is being bankrolled.
up to $1 billion to be spent on political commercials just in this 2010 midterm election, if you can believe that. an eye-popping number. up to this point, we ve seen about $285 million spent. but as history dictates, probably about 75% of all ad spending in an election occurs in the last 60 days. and our friend evan tracy over at campaign media analysis group tells us that. moving on, our own dana bash spent some time with olympia snow. she s very upset about mike castle, that delaware centrist who lost to christine o donnell in that primary just a few days ago. olympia snowe says, look, the tea party has some very good ideas, but the fact of the matter is, this shouldn t be a purity test in the republican party. certainly if the republican party wants to become a majority and closing it out with everyone s darling or at least
and higher. that s why there s a lot of panic on the democratic side. eight weeks before the elections. you talk about ads, they could be nastier than ever. republicans attacking the president. democrats, they don t even know the guy. take a look at this ad, from missouri, it s taking aim at robin carnahan, the democrat running for u.s. senate who supported the president on health care reform. it is time to pass health care reform for america. i m unhappy about it. when you get there, crystal clear, you would have voted for the health care reform bill? yes. with so many democrats in trouble this election season, evan tracey, president and founder of campaign media analysis group is joining us to discuss trends in the midterm campaign ads. evan, thanks for joining us, i said the democrats don t even know the president in some of