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America’s Oligarchs Support Clinton Almost Unanimously

by Eric Zuesse

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The results are already in, even before the official campaign-finance final figures will become available after the election.
Though a large percentage of the people funding the campaign advertising will never be made public — due to recent Supreme Court decisions allowing “dark money” — data already exist on the final product of the campaigns (including both the above-board and the dark money), which is the booked advertising time for each of the two candidates at the start of their campaigns. (Similar proportions of donations go also to get-out-the-vote and other campaign-activities; so, these booked-advertising figures correlate rather well with across-the-board funding of the two campaigns.)
Advertising rates — the charges per second of air-time — get higher and higher the later and closer to Election Day the time is booked; so, any candidate who books late is really starved for funds and has little chance of winning; any candidate who does the booking early is getting a big break from the networks and from certain other media. This discount, for early booking, magnifies even further the cash-advantage of the candidate whom the oligarchs prefer.
However, normally, both Parties’ nominees have their own billionaires backing them (Republican billionaires backing the Republican nominee, and Democratic billionaires backing the Democratic nominee), and so there’s a real contest, they both have a chance; but not this time: Look at the figures, and you can see that, this time around, virtually all of the oligarchs are backing only one candidate: they have united around Clinton.
On August 2nd, Carrie Dann at NBC headlined, “Clinton, Allies Have Reserved $98 Million in Ads”, and she opened: “Hillary Clinton and her allies are poised for a TV ad blitz of nearly $100 million dollars, compared to less than $1 million currently reserved on the airwaves by backers of Donald Trump.” That’s a wipe-out of Trump, by the oligarchs.
The detailed total on ads that have already been aired was: “Through last week, Team Clinton had aired a total of $68 million in ads, while Team Trump had spent roughly $6 million.” The totals booked going forward are even more skewed in Clinton’s favor: $98 million for Clinton, $817,000 for Trump. (In other words: Trump’s ratio is even worse now, than it was leading up to the two Conventions.)
Going forward, it’s like a hundred-to-one advantage, Clinton over Trump.
Perhaps the reason why this is so, is: Clinton has already spoken privately with the heads of these companies (the companies owned by the oligarchs) and with their lobbyists, and she coordinates her campaign with their propaganda-operations. So: her messages are also their messages. (But what she has told them behind closed doors goes even beyond that, into her proposing new federal subsidies for their businesses.)
The historical background of the current developments in the U.S., has already been well covered in a lengthy paper by Ryan Patrick Alford, that’s appropriately-titled “The Dismantling of the Rule of Law in the United States” (especially see there “Citizens United,” which is a direct source of this).
But, whatever the reason: in the current U.S. Presidential race, there is no real contest at all, in terms of support by the oligarchs — and their support tends to be decisive. There is, amongst them, a near-100% unity around one nominee, as there has never been before in American history, at least going back to 1896, and perhaps to the founding of the republic. (Furthermore, back near the founding, there was no oligarchy; the nation started out as being, to a large extent, a democratic republic. It no longer is that.)

Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of  They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.

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Schlüter
Schlüter
Aug 7, 2016 1:46 PM

The US Neocon Power Elite, the”Deep State” of the USA, is firecely determined to put their female stooge Clinton into Office! If Trump catches up again (I´m not at all a fan of him, but at least he´s no interventionist), something nasty is going to happen to him:
„I made a Prediction! Realization already on the Way?“ https://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2016/08/04/trump-i-made-a-prediction-realization-already-on-the-way/
The hardcoe Neocon “Think Tankers” like Robert Kagan are in her full Support. Those guys stand for this:
“US Power Elite Declared Bio War on the Southern Hemisphere, East Asia and all Non-Western Countries in September 2000”: https://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2016/03/13/us-power-elite-declared-war-on-the-southern-hemisphere-east-asia-and-all-non-western-countries-in-september-2000/
Andreas Schlüter
Sociologist
Berlin, Germany

Mick McNulty
Mick McNulty
Aug 7, 2016 11:44 AM

Trump or Clinton. Worst or Worstest.

Secret Agent
Secret Agent
Aug 6, 2016 1:01 PM

The first rule of marketing is that you don’t launch a new product in August. Nobody is paying much attention and when they start paying attention in mid September the Hillary product will seem old and tired. They will have used up all thir best ammo and will be scraping the bottom of the barrel. Trump on the other hand will be prepared to launch an effective media campaign at the critical moment
This proves that Hillary and her campaign managers are a bunch of fuckwits. Yet again, it’s full steam ahead, with zero thought as to how to implement anything and zero regard for the consequences of their stupid reckless policy.

robert11011
robert11011
Aug 6, 2016 12:48 PM

Reblogged this on robert11011's Blog.

Destro
Destro
Aug 6, 2016 11:49 AM

Measure the amount of free media coverage that Trump gets. He obviously doesn’t need to pay for air time and I’d rather have a “racist bigot” in office than continue down the road of establishment government. Her actions as secretary of state cost the American tax payers over 5 trillion dollars. Disaster relief in Haiti that was spearheaded by the Clinton’s fell 5000 homes short of the rebuild that the projected budget allowed. Also intervened with countries in Africa just to sell mining rights to companies like lundin gold.