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Nielsen: Obama more than doubles McCain’s ads in Missouri
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Nielsen chart showing daily TV ads in Missouri. Red is McCain, Blue is Obama

Nielsen chart showing daily TV ads in Missouri. Red is McCain, Blue is Obama

Democrat Barack Obama is purchasing far more television advertising in seven key swing states — including Missouri — than his Republican rival John McCain, the monitoring service Nielsen reports today.

According to Nielsen, McCain purchased 1,560 ads in St. Louis and Springfield, Mo. between Oct. 6 and Oct. 22. During that same time, Obama purchased 3,168 ads in the two markets.

Nationally, Nielsen says, Obama placed 150 percent more ads in the swing states. In Florida alone, Obama ran 11,000 more ads than McCain. In total, Obama ran 53,049 in the seven swing states, compared to McCain’s 21,106.

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  1. MOactiveGOP  October 27, 2008 at 10:40 UTC

    $650 million divided by 25$ gives 26 million donors. Do the math. If 20$, nearly 33 million donors. I do not believe this happened. Actual $ raised by Obama including ‘in kind’ and illegal /foreign donations and free medial hullaballoo by ABC/CNN/MSNBC cheerleaders probably equals a trillion dollars.
    Consider: l concert by Hollywood/rock star folks usually costs 50$ (low estimate)/ ticket, for 10 thousand folks, gives a $500,000 ‘in kind’ donation.

    We have seen several of these come into MO alone…multiple ones in other states, plus big time donors in Hollywood, SF and Wall Street.

    Things do not pass the smell test to this regular citizen.

    Funny accounting in this campaign, a dedicated investigative journalist could make several careers looking into this if they had the courage.

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  2. MOactiveGOP  October 27, 2008 at 10:13 UTC

    Conclusion: Obama campaign is using oodles of cash to buy the election.

    Round up the usual suspects!

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  3. givemeabr8  October 26, 2008 at 6:55 UTC

    Hey everyone…I hear all sorts of things about Obama…like his “Associations” with folks like of Ayres, and then there’s Khalidi and then a guy named Michael Klonsky and Rezko and then the religious dudes Flager and Reve Wright… and someone told me that while living in Hawaii his mentor was a guy name Fank Marshall Davis Gonna watch Sun(oct26) 9ET on Foxnews Sean Hannity’s show on Obama to understand more and see if I agree with the polls.

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  4. Garrison  October 24, 2008 at 3:32 UTC

    And to think that over 70% of his campaign contributions have came from $25 dollar donations….He is the Messiah. Born in a manger.

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  5. Brendan  October 24, 2008 at 3:05 UTC

    Didn’t that brilliant campaign strategist Jared Craighead say Obama was pulling out of Missouri??

    Sure doesn’t look like it.

    You need to find another line of work quick Jared. Obama is going to win and somehow I don’t think Jay Nixon will let Andy Blunt run the Government like his brother has!

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  6. Go_Fish  October 24, 2008 at 2:34 UTC

    So much for the cakewalk narrative.

    Say, if it was discoverd that the McCain or even Hillary Clinton campaign deliberatly allowed people from all over the world to make fraudulent credit card donations on their campaign websites, do you think it would go unreported? I’m sure the tireless team of Joy Behar-quoting crack investigative reporters would jump all over something like that.

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