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Mark Hamill Helps Celebrate Joe Biden Blowing Up Trump Campaign Death Star, and It’s Perfect

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As we have reported several times, there are television shows and there are NFL football games. The two bear little relationship to the other with respect to ratings and the price of ads. And there are NFL games, then there are Monday Night Football games, which take the matter to an entirely different level. This partly explains why your Monday Night Football experience involves watching so many ads for various drugs, all ads made with the quality one expects from a Spielberg film. Big Pharma has big money. So does Joe.

It is Monday, tonight Phoenix plays Dallas, and Joe Biden is running up the score in advertising over President Donald Trump: The Democrat’s campaign is spending nearly $400,000 for three TV spots during the game. Two of them will air locally in the massive Phoenix market — which has more political ads than anywhere else in the nation — and the third will be shown nationally. If Joe wins Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Michigan (and everything else remains the same) from last time, Joe Biden will be president.

You can do things like that when you have money (or so we’re told), and Biden has a lot of money. Trump and his Parscale “Death Star” not so much. Trump is spending $36,000 on one local ad. According to Politico:

The disparity isn’t just limited to the “Monday Night Football” game or to Arizona, a once reliably Republican state that’s now a hotly contested battleground. It’s playing out across the dial on TV sets nationwide in the broader presidential campaign. Biden is saturating the airwaves and outgunning his opponent by a margin of about $178 million in ad buys from June 1 through Election Day, according to data from the media-tracking firm Advertising Analytics. 

And the Biden campaign isn’t just throwing money at expensive stuff with lots of viewers, they’re buying ads on TV watched by viewers they want to reach:

Biden’s national buys are seen as a key ingredient in making former swing states like Ohio and Iowa look like battlegrounds again. The campaign is advertising heavily on shows such as “Wheel of Fortune” and “Jeopardy,” which are popular among seniors, and older people especially are watching more TV during the pandemic.

And as many of you read daily, for months, that the Trumps were building the single most impenetrable fundraising database ever assembled, called “the Death Star” (these people evidently have no problem calling themselves evil, Vader, Emperor, Dark Side, all that.) Nowadays, the money is gone – and the Deathstar is “gone,” one wonders why Parscale isn’t swimming with the fishes. Whatever the reason, those plucky little rebels, have done it again, and the internet is lit with Death Stars not blowing up planets (which is what Trump intends to do):

This is just rubbing it in:

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Jason
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Jason Miciak
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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