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The Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy

This page ran 5 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 6 May 2026 and 16 July 2026. Meta reports $0 – $495 of spend, which makes it the 19,704th largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Group or campaign. Most of its spend took no side. Race: No specific race. Paid for by CARDINAL INSTITUTE FOR WE.

Data from the Meta Ad Library, pulled 4 November 2026. Election on 3 November 2026. · Every ad of this page in Meta’s Ad Library ↗

5

ads

$248

reported spend, range $0 – $495

0.0%

of spend on federal races

$50

median spend per ad

Spend by week the ad started

4 May
1 Jun
6 Jul
3 Aug
7 Sep
5 Oct
 Spend still counting
2 Nov

Tone

Attack
40%
Promotional
20%
Informational
40%

Share of the 5 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Topics

Health
60%
Education
40%
Corruption & governance
40%
Jobs & youth
20%

Spend by race: No specific race 100%.

Spend by ad language: English 100%.

The costliest ads

The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.

  • One curriculum. Two different kids. On a tight budget, this family had to run both sons through the same boxed program. It worked for one and left the other behind. The Hope Scholarship gave her older son his own academic budget—and the freedom to build school around how he actually learns. "Now he's probably one of the smartest kids I've ever met." That's what school choice is really about: the right fit for every child in West Virginia.

    16 July 2026 · The Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy · $0 – $99 · 10K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • West Virginia spends $4.1 billion a year on education and while outcomes remain unacceptably low. Nine state reviews, nine districts, one pattern: financial mismanagement, falsified records, unsafe facilities. When this much money buys this little, the problem isn't the budget. It's the system. Our research, in two minutes. ⬇️

    11 June 2026 · The Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy · $0 – $99 · 8K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • National Hospital Week is here. But are West Virginia hospitals living up to their mission? Cardinal Institute's Jessica Dobrinsky examines what the data actually shows in her latest WV News op-ed: - Less than 1% of net patient revenue goes to charity care, while 13.3% of adults carry medical debt. - Three labor and delivery units have closed in 21 months. - Nurses learned of closures by text minutes before the public. Who is really paying the price? Read the full op-ed ⬇️

    11 May 2026 · The Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy · $0 – $99 · 5K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • Moms are the backbones of our communities. They give us life, provide comfort when we're sick, are cheering us on. But when a pregnant mother in West Virginia can't get to an ER in time after a fall—because her hospital's labor and delivery unit had closed—ask yourself: when a hospital walks away from maternity care, why is it nearly impossible for anyone else to step in? Under current Certificate of Need laws, a new provider can't just open to replace what was lost. They need the state's perm

    10 May 2026 · The Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy · $0 – $99 · 15K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

  • "You know what happens when people can't have babies in the place they live? They move away." West Virginia has seen three labor and delivery closures in the last 21 months. Listen to Chief of Staff Jessica Dobrinsky on WAJR discuss rural L&D closures and how Certificate of Need is impacting communities across the Mountain State. ⬇️

    6 May 2026 · The Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy · $0 – $99 · 6K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

Figures cover domestic political ads paid in dollars, from 4 May 2026. Spend is the sum of Meta’s range midpoints; impressions above one million are reported as “1M+”, so impression figures are floors. Each ad counts in the week its delivery started, with its lifetime spend at our last pull; ads still running before the vote are counted as of 31 October 2026.

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The Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy: political ads on Facebook and Instagram before the 2026 US midterms · Vipima