After 1 million negative ads, it’s easy to conclude that the 2012 presidential campaign was negative. And it was, according to Americans surveyed in a Pew poll out today. The Pew Research Center found 68 percent of voters saying the...
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A collage of nighttime network television commercials largely dominated by campaign ads. Photograph by Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
2012 Campaign Negative as Seemed
Barack Obama, as a presidential candidate, campaigning in New Hampshire, 2008. Photograph by Keith Bedford/Bloomberg
Obama’s New Hampshire Win: Cities
President Barack Obama carried New Hampshire for the second straight election on Nov. 6 partly by maintaining his big margins from four years ago in the state’s three biggest municipalities. Obama beat Republican challenger Mitt Romney by 55-44 percent in...
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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...
Read more »Bachmann Ad: “Independent Voice” for Minnesota — as Election Nears
Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota Republican who leads the Tea Party Caucus in Congress and referred to President Barack Obama’s health-care law as “the crown jewel of socialism” during a short-lived presidential run, is adopting a bipartisan tone as she fights...
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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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A Mitt Romney supporter at a campaign rally at The Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Oct. 24, 2012.
Women from Romney’s Cabinet Testify in Post-`Binders’ TV Ad
Underscoring the importance of female voters, Mitt Romney’s campaign is airing a television ad with testimonials from three women who worked in the Republican presidential nominee’s cabinet when he was Massachusetts governor. Romney was “very sensitive” to “taking care of...
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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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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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Maine independent Senate candidate Angus King speaks at a news conference in Brunswick, Maine.
Angus King’s Recipe for Congress: No Budget, No Salary
Angus King thinks the U.S. Senate has no concept of time. In his newest Senate campaign commercial, the independent ex-governor of Maine holds up a clock that reads 8:00, telling viewers that the half of the Senate would read it...
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