tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post2138829581983706210..comments2023-10-16T07:13:12.123-05:00Comments on A plain blog about politics: Q Day 4: Electioneering Bias?Jonathan Bernsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15931039630306253241noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-56008050708466058422012-07-27T14:19:04.581-05:002012-07-27T14:19:04.581-05:00This is spot on. The people who do big TV buys ar...This is spot on. The people who do big TV buys are often consultants that can get paid as a percentage of the ads. For example, Ed Morris and Mark Penn demanded an obscene amount of money to run Clinton's re-elect in this regard (Penn got to get paid for the huge amount of polling they did that even asked people questions like "do you think you're the life of the party?" to try and figure out how voters "think") and its even a minor plot point in an episode of "The West Wing".<br /><br />Field staff, who do the door knocking and build the massive infrastructure to facilitate outreach with volunteers on a large scale are almost always salaried employees of the campaign. So Obama's field director for Ohio has an incredibly important job for the campaign, but probably doesn't make more that 100k a year. Probably more like 40k.longwalkdownlyndalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13173899547449318257noreply@blogger.com