President Barack Obama’s re-election committee was responsible for more than four of every 10 of the 1.2 million presidential campaign ads for the general election, twice as many as those aired by Republican challenger Mitt Romney, a final count of...
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In this image taken from video is a TV ad by the Obama For America campaign in which President Barack Obama speaks to voters in Spanish. The ad titled "Buen Ejemplo," or "A Good Example" went on air in the U.S. on Oct. 9, 2012.
Final 2012 Ad Count: 1.2 Million
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Voters walk past supporters holding signs on their way to casting ballots at Northwest Elementary School on Nov. 6, 2012 in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Who’s Who of Republican Groups Airs Pennsylvania Ads — 2/3 Romney
Mitt Romney and 10 0allied groups ran television ads in Pennsylvania in the past week, a last-ditch effort to shift the Democratic-leaning state’s 20 electoral votes to the Republican column in today’s election. The pro-Romney side supplied 5,115 of the...
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A cardboard cut-out of President Barack Obama during the Democratic National Convention.
Michael Reagan’s Super-PAC Attacks Obamacare on Pennsylvania TV
A Republican super-PAC is attacking President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul in television ads running in Pennsylvania, where Mitt Romney and Republican allies are trying to put the Democratic-leaning state in play. The health-care law “cuts Medicare by $716 billion” and...
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Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock gestures during a news conference in Indianapolis, on Oct. 24, 2012, to explain the comment he made during last night Senate debate. Mourdock said that when a woman becomes pregnant during a rape, "that's something God intended."
Obama Radio Ad Revives Romney Tie to Mourdock
Barack Obama wants Colorado voters to remember a certain Indiana Senate candidate when they pick a president next week. An Obama radio ad in Denver spins through the Richard Mourdock rape comment controversy, using newscasts and a conversation between a...
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A collection of evening television fare in Ohio was punctuated by campaign ads, in Columbus, Ohio.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 181,449
That’s how many times that presidential election ads aired on broadcast television stations in Ohio from April 10 to Oct. 22, according to Kantar Media’s CMAG. More ads have aired in Ohio than anywhere else, underscoring the importance of a...
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Rep. John Barrow in his Rayburn office.
Top-10 Congressional Districts in TV
Because Republican-leaning Georgia isn’t competitive in the Nov. 6 presidential race, you might think voters there have avoided the saturation-level television advertising in swing states like neighboring Florida. Don’t say that to TV-watching residents in Georgia’s 12th congressional district in...
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The debate between presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney is seen on a television in a Korean restaurant on Oct. 22, 2012 in Chatsworth area of Los Angeles.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 1,014,484
That’s how many times television ads from President Barack Obama, Republican nominee Mitt Romney and other groups involved in the Nov. 6 election have aired during the general election campaign, according to Kantar Media’s CMAG. The totals include spots that...
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A "welcome to Las Vegas" sign inside the MGM Resorts International casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Las Vegas, Denver See Most TV Ads in Record Presidential Campaign Run
In Las Vegas, presidential campaign advertising has been as ubiquitous as the gaudy neon on the Strip. A study out today by the Wesleyan Media Project at Wesleyan University found that the presidential campaigns and their allies aired 8,057 ads...
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Clint Eastwood at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Tampa, Florida.
Clint Talks to Camera, Not an Empty Chair, in Ad for Romney
He’s given dozens of memorable performances on film. Plus one now infamous performance talking to an empty chair. Now Clint Eastwood is appearing in an ad supporting Mitt Romney. Scheduled to begin running today in several battleground states including Virginia...
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Crossroads Gets Personal in New Romney Pitch to Wisconsin Voters
In a new television ad now playing in Wisconsin, Crossroads GPS spotlights a couple whose cancer-stricken son Mitt Romney befriended in 1979. The ad, titled “Mitt and David,” hits a personal “he cares” theme that another pro-Romney outside group, Restore Our...
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