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John Deaton for US Senate US Inactive

JOHN DEATON FOR SENATE INC.

ad creative

Ad copy

You work your whole life to buy a home and retire. Then property taxes keep rising while government keeps asking for more. Roads need repairs. Traffic gets worse. And in Stoneham, residents are waiting 30 days for a “traffic light calibration”. Higher taxes. Higher costs. Slower government and a 53 year career politician who’s not fighting for federal funding to offset cost. Why do we keep voting for the same results? I can improve life here in Massachusetts for working families.

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Performance proxies

Overall score35.2/100
Spend / Reach / Long. / Eff.11.9 · 59.2 · 0.8 · 68.8
Spend rangeUSD 100–199
Impressions15,000 – 19,999
CPM (≈ $/1k impr)USD 8.54
Est. audience size
Days live4 (2026-06-11 → 2026-06-15)
Created2026-06-11
Creative variants1 body · 0 headline
Platformsfacebook, instagram
Languagesen
CandidateMA — John Deaton
Surfaced by“senate:John Deaton”

🧠 AI analysis

Issueeconomy taxes
Framingcontrast comparison
Message typepersuasion
Emotional appealanger
Production tiersemi pro
Who picturedcandidate, veterans military
Symbolsus flag, military
Call to actionnone
Standout elementcandidate standing in front of a Stoneham veterans memorial sign with military service branch names visible, grounding the message locally
TacticThe ad uses kitchen-table economic grievances (rising property taxes, deteriorating roads) tied to a hyper-local example (30-day traffic light wait) to make government incompetence feel personal, then pivots to a 'career politician' contrast attack to position Deaton as the change agent.

Where it ran (delivery by region)

Massachusetts100.0%

Who saw it (delivery)

25-34 · female 0.8%
25-34 · male 11.7%
25-34 · unknown 0.1%
35-44 · female 1.4%
35-44 · male 14.2%
35-44 · unknown 0.1%
45-54 · female 1.9%
45-54 · male 15.8%
45-54 · unknown 0.1%
55-64 · female 4.5%
55-64 · male 21.5%
55-64 · unknown 0.2%
65+ · female 7.8%
65+ · male 19.6%
65+ · unknown 0.2%

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