pinkfloydms said:

That $140k was money that was spent for the whole DNC Podium Production. Did you even read the article phred?

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zappaisgod said:

So what?  One day.  And tacky as well.  It takes a consummate retard to think she wasn't going to need new clothes for this stage.  It actually speaks quite well of her that she didn't have this designer crap in the first place.  That they had to get it for her is to her credit and credentials as a regular human being.  How come the community organizer who has never really ever had a paying job has $1,500 dollar suits.  What about his shoes, his shirts?  Front Page questions!

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Ferris said:

I assume that the RNC convention stage cost a similar amount.

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Speaking of the convention stages, the DNC stage looked like something you'd see on American Idol. It was ridiculously flashy.

Lets take another look at this thing.



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What do you figure the cost difference was between the two?

Prisoner#1 said:

pinkfloydms said:

That $140k was money that was spent for the whole DNC Podium Production. Did you even read the article phred?

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of which lighting and stands arent something they bought just
to put that up and toss out with the trash later, that
portion is owned by a lighting/production company, it's not
purchased by the DNC

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matt said:

What do you figure the cost difference was between the two?

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Ferris said:

Ya, but the equipment is worth millions, not tens of thousands.  Rental alone has to be tens of thousands per day.

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Ferris said:

matt said:

What do you figure the cost difference was between the two?

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I'd say 100k versus the dnc 140k.

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matt said:

B-Rock is on pace to shatter G.W.'s record as the most expensive campaign in US history, afaik.

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Quote:

Agencies Posted: Oct 18, 2008 at 1400 hrs
New York, October 18: Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama is all set to break the advertising expenses record in a election set by President George W Bush, a media report said.

Based on his current spending, Campaign Media Analysis Group (CMAG), a service that monitors political advertising, predicts Obama's advertising campaign will surpass the USD 188 million Bush spent in his 2004 campaign by early next week.

With advertisements running unabatedly on all local and national broadcast networks and even on video games and his own dedicated satellite channels, the Democrat nominee is out-advertising his Republican rival McCain nationwide by a ratio of at least 4-to-1, the New York Times said, citing CMAG.

The huge gap has been made possible by Obama's decision to opt out of the federal campaign finance system, which provides Presidential nominees USD 84 million in public money and prohibits them from spending any amount above that from their party convention to Election Day.

McCain, however, is participating in the system.

Obama, who has earlier promised to participate in it, is expected to announce in the next few days that he has raised more than USD 100 million in September, a figure that would shatter fund-raising records.

John McCain has spent USD 91 million on advertising since he clinched his party's nomination, several months before Obama clinched his.

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