Look out below. John McCain’s success at increasing his poll numbers and controlling the presidential campaign’s agenda after the GOP convention appears to bode a far more negative tone in TV political ads in the campaign’s final two months. The change was already becoming apparent late last week as...
Republican presidential candidate John McCain discarded precedent from recent elections, buying political ads on network TV for the second time in as many months. Last month, both McCain and his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, purchased TV time during the Olympics. This time Sen. McCain is leading the...
The pitch and tone at the Democratic National Convention signals that the final two months of the campaign are going to be hard fought, with more TV advertising in more states than ever before. David Plouffe, the campaign manager for Democratic nominee Barack Obama, told the convention the candidate...