This blog is a response to my earlier blog reporting the outrageous cost of the North Carolina senate race. The race totaled 81 million in outside funders and Tillis came out on top. Each of the 114,000 TV ads was vital to his victory as he only trumped his opponent, Hagan, 48.95 percent to 47.14 percent. He won by 125, 000 North Carolina voters. The victory gave majority Republicans to the senate and marks one of the quickest rise in politics for Tillis, as he was a simple town commissioner just eight years ago.
I think that it is inevitable for a race so highly advertised to be so close; I am frankly surprised that more voters just decided to vote for the independent candidate out of annoyance of advertisements.
The information above was taken from the following link: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/us-senate-tillis-defeats-hagan-as-gop-reclaims-senate/ar-BBd58Xg?ansObserver11
I think it is completely ridiculous that that much is spent on an election. I wish people would just base their decision off of accurate information, and the money used for a better cause. The America election system is so commercialized.
ReplyDeleteI think its so interesting how different each state's senate race is. Mike Rounds and Kristi Noem barely ran any ads because they knew they could win without them. And some states like North Carolina have races with many ads. It probably got annoying to watch so many political ads.
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