Kaiser Family Foundation
polled people on whether they had seen pro- or anti-Affordable Care Act ads. The results:
So 20 percent saw more ads opposed, 7 percent saw more ads in favor, 23 percent saw the same amounts, and 47 percent had no clue or hadn't seen any. In states with competitive Senate races, the numbers were 4 percent saw more favorable ads, 34 saw more ads opposed, and 34 percent saw an equal amount or didn't know.
And this proves the increasing worthlessness of advertising.
The Koch Brothers have already aired 44,000 ads, the bulk of them attacking Democrats on Obamacare. And that's just the Kochs, as Republicans have been relentless (until recently) on the topic.
How many ads are being run on the pro-ACA side? Pretty much none. There's certainly nothing from outside groups. There's been two ads from Sen. Mark Pryor that touched on the ACA, Sen. Mark Begich ran a single ad on it, Natalie Tennant in West Virginia ran an ad. Combined, the ratio of anti- and pro-ACA ads must be at least 5,000-1, no exaggeration. There just isn't anyone defending the law in any significant manner.
And yet here is polling showing that a third of the public thinks there's parity, and some even think the pro-ACA side is ahead. So after spending hundreds of millions of dollars, only a third of registered voters have even noticed that the anti-ACA side has dominated the airwaves.
The Koch Brothers keep pouring their money down the drain. No problem for them, they have billions more. But be happy that they're not spending those hundreds of millions in places where they might have greater effect.