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David Costello for U.S. Senate US Inactive

COSTELLO FOR SENATE

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To challenge and defeat Senator Susan Collins, I believe one's lived and work experience matters!!! Mine: working class upbringing; solid education; 25+years hands-on senior-level government experience, both in the US and abroad, and very substantive policy reform agenda...

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Performance proxies

Overall score19.3/100
Spend / Reach / Long. / Eff.0.0 · 24.3 · 1.7 · 51.2
Spend range<USD 99
Impressions100 – 999
CPM (≈ $/1k impr)USD 90.08
Est. audience size500,001 – 1,000,000
Days live7 (2026-05-18 → 2026-05-25)
Created2026-05-18
Creative variants1 body · 0 headline
Platformsfacebook, instagram
Languagesen
CandidateME — David Costello
Surfaced by“senate:David Costello”

🧠 AI analysis

Issuecandidate character bio
Framingpositive candidate
Message typepersuasion
Emotional appealempathy
Production tiersemi pro
Who picturedcandidate, veterans military
Symbolsfarm rural, military, family
Call to actionnone
Standout elementCandidate standing casually in front of a modest rural home with a deeply personal bootstrap narrative overlaid
TacticThe ad leverages an emotional origin story — hardship, military family, and government assistance — to establish authenticity and working-class credibility as a contrast to an incumbent Senator.

Where it ran (delivery by region)

Maine100.0%

Who saw it (delivery)

18-24 · female 3.7%
18-24 · male 5.4%
18-24 · unknown 0.3%
25-34 · female 2.6%
25-34 · male 3.4%
25-34 · unknown 0.3%
35-44 · female 1.4%
35-44 · male 2.6%
45-54 · female 4.0%
45-54 · male 3.4%
55-64 · female 8.3%
55-64 · male 11.7%
55-64 · unknown 0.6%
65+ · female 20.9%
65+ · male 30.4%
65+ · unknown 0.9%

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