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Battleground: Where's McCain on TV?

 
COLORADO: The Denver Post : “To understand the candidates' political field strategy in a swing state is to understand some of the most scientific approaches that exist in unearthing wavering voters and pulling them over the fence.  The campaigns are wary about giving specifics, but a week of shadowing door-knockers, phone banks and outreach efforts on both sides revealed bare-knuckled aggression to woo voters from Denver to Sterling to Pueblo to Montrose.” FLORIDA: Florida consultants worry aloud, "Where's McCain on TV?" Per the Orlando Sentinel : "From late September through Oct. 4, Barack Obama outspent McCain on TV advertising by more than 3-to-1, according to the University of Wisconsin's Advertising Project. The Illinois Democrat dumped more than $2.1 million into state TV buys, while McCain spent $659,000. 'I don't get it,' said a leading Republican consultant who did not want to publicly question the McCain campaign. 'They're getting killed on the air.'" INDIANA:  ... (link)

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