4.3M TV Ads with Spending Nearing $3B
Photo Gage Skidmore/flickr Pro-Republican Outside Groups Airing More Ads than Republican Candidates(MIDDLETOWN, CT) November 3, 2022 – An estimated $2.71 billion has been spent in federal and gubernatorial races on broadcast television advertising this election cycle, according to a new analysis by the Wesleyan Media Project. That represents 4.3 million ad airings so far cycle-to-date (between January 6, 2021, and October 30, 2022), an increase of 10 percent over the same period in the 2018 midterms. Nearly a third (29.9 percent) of all pro-Democratic and pro-Republican ads were sponsored by groups. These totals include any ads aired in congressional and…

Wesleyan Media ProjectNovember 3, 2022