Why it matters: After two high-profile runoffs in two years, four elections in 2022 alone, thousands of ads and text messages jamming Georgians’ televisions, phones and radio stations, some Georgia voters are tired.
By the numbers: At least about $400 million in campaign and outside money has been spent so far on Georgia’s 2022 Senate election, per Open Secrets.
- That breaks out to at least $101 per voter who cast a Senate ballot in November.
The campaigns for Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker have spent $335 million on TV ads during the general and the runoff, according to NPR, including nearly $80 million in the runoff alone.
- Inside Elections analyst Jacob Rubashkin estimates there have been more than 20,000 “individual occurrences” of ads run on Georgia airwaves between both parties in the runoff.
What they’re saying: “People are tired of it. Both parties, I think, are tired of it. We need a little rest,” Republican state Rep. Kasey Carpenter told Axios. “The amount of money spent in this state over the last three years is absurd. And every time we pull something up, every time you’re watching a show, you’re watching an ad.”
https://www.axios.com/2022/12/06/georgia-voters-are-tired-after-senate-runoff