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With Buses And Billboards, Small-Money Groups Try To Make A Mark
November 3, 2012 From a DVD claiming that President Obama's real father was a communist poet, to small-market TV ads of child readers urging support for the president, this campaign season has seen its share of outside-the-mainstream efforts to influence the election.
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Do Political Ads Actually Work?
October 26, 2012 Democrats and Republicans are on track to spend about $1 billion each on TV advertising in the presidential race — most of it negative and almost all in battleground states. There's little evidence the ads sway voters, but the campaigns are happy to settle for low odds, given the lingering memories of the close 2000 election.
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Should TV Stations Refuse To Air Political Ads That Make False Claims?
October 3, 2012 The nonpartisan group Free Press is calling on stations to do just that. At the very least, the group says, stations should fact check more. A new study by the group found that stations almost never reject third-party and superPAC ads — and few of them were engaging in serious fact checking.
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Between Touchdowns And Triple Jumps, Politicians Are Popping Up On Sports TV
July 12, 2012 ESPN will sell ad time to candidates in local markets now instead of just nationally. And on NBC, the Olympics will be chock-full of political commercials.
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FCC Requires Top Market TV Stations To Post Political Ad Data Online
April 27, 2012 The Federal Communications Commission has approved a rule requiring TV stations to post details online about the amount of political advertising they air, and what they charge for the ads. For the first two years, the ruling applies only to major network affiliates in the nation's biggest markets.
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In Swing States, Obama Campaign Begins Push For Another Latino-Vote Landslide
April 19, 2012 In 2008, Barack Obama captured two-thirds of the Hispanic vote, winning in crucial swing states with large Hispanic populations like Colorado, Nevada and Florida. Obama's re-election campaign is now targeting those same states with its first set of Spanish-language TV and radio ads.
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Fight For GOP Soul, SuperPACs Spur Negative Political Ad Explosion
February 6, 2012 While the barrage of negative ads is likely to be bad during the general election, the Republican primaries have seen a confluence of factors that have made for particularly fertile ground for negative ads: the introduction of superPACs collided with a war for control of the GOP between conservatives and hard conservatives.
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Gingrich, Romney Go At It Over Abortion
January 12, 2012 As the race heads to socially conservative South Carolina, the Republican presidential candidates are accusing each other of being less than pure on the issue.
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Twitter To Sell Political Ads
September 21, 2011 With the social media and micro blogging giant seeking ways to boost revenues that are disproportionately small compared to its user base and Google and Facebook already deep into selling political ads, the pressure was strong for Twitter to move in this direction.
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Senate Republicans Block Campaign-Finance Bill
July 27, 2010 Senate Republicans Block Campaign-Finance Bill
Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!
Who Is This Narrator? UPDATED: It's The Guy From 'Goonies'
May 11, 2010 Who Is This Man? A political ad narrator haunts our dreams.
