The battle to sway hearts and minds over debit card swipe fees is heating up fast on radio waves, in Capitol Hill newspapers and even on subway cars throughout the nation's capitol.
There were some low blows delivered in campaign ads this election year, and Tom Foreman has the worst of the worst.
A disturbingly graphic political ad is airing on local stations in Washington this week -- and stations are telling viewers there's nothing they can do to prevent it.
Florida Senate candidates debate the issues and their support for President Obama's agenda.
Pick up a television remote control in your Las Vegas, Nevada, hotel room today and you are guaranteed to find a program to teach you how to play craps, blackjack and roulette as well as be inundated with 30-second messages about who to vote for in the Nov. 2 election.
CNN's Tom Foreman takes a look at some of the more interesting political ads hitting the airwaves this year.
In 2008, Democratic candidates peppered campaign ads with images, video and audio of then-presidential candidate Barack Obama.
The midterm elections are nine months away, but it's not too early to begin handicapping them -- from a dollars and cents vantage point, that is.
The price tag to influence the health care debate in the halls of Congress has surpassed $600 million and is fast becoming a legislative record breaker.
The fight over health care overhaul is on track to be the most expensive issue ever to hit the hallways of Congress.
Both major candidates battle in Florida today. Plus, Barack Obama buys lots of prime time TV space. Paul Steinhauser reports.
Sen. Barack Obama's 30-minute TV ad, which ran simultaneously on broadcast and cable networks at 8 p.m. ET Wednesday, is muscle-flexing that has little precedent, a campaign advertising expert said.
Larry King talks with panelists about the latest uproar about Gov. Palin and their thoughts going into the election.
A new Republican ad appears to suggest that Barack Obama has all but won the presidential race, an argument several vulnerable Senate Republicans may have to reluctantly embrace with only days until Election Day, an expert in campaign advertising said.
The race for the White House is being waged in the final weeks in American living rooms through a blitz of negative campaign commercials.
While John McCain digs at Barack Obama's connection with Bill Ayers, Obama is firing back at McCain for his tax plan.
Pundits may have spent the year declaring the passing of the 527 era, but the view from primary states this month is beginning to make the reports of that death look just a bit premature.
A new batch of campaign ads aim to convince voters that candidates have the answers to U.S. energy problems.
Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell blames challenger Bruce Lunsford for the increase in the state's gas tax. Michigan Rep. John Dingell pledges to stop price gouging and rein in energy speculators.
Preston on Politics talks to CNN TV advertising consultant Evan Tracey about the candidates' TV campaign strategies.
Sen. Barack Obama's name is likely to help several Democratic candidates down ballot, but what about a Republican?
Barack Obama's decision to forgo public financing for his presidential campaign provides him with the tools needed to implement a "Shock and Awe" television ad strategy designed to paralyze John McCain's campaign, an expert on political TV advertising said in an interview with CNN.
Is Sen. Barack Obama the new Sen. Ted Kennedy, Sen. Hillary Clinton or former House Speaker Newt Gingrich? For Republican candidates and political ad makers, the White House hopeful might very well be.
CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser goes over today's big stories on the campaign trail.
When it comes to campaign commercials, Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are going where no candidate has gone before.
With just days to make last-minute pitches to voters in two dozen states, the presidential candidates are pouring millions into television advertising before Super Tuesday.
Iowa's 2.3 million eligible voters have been bombarded with close to $40 million worth of political ads on television this cycle -- more than three times the amount spent there in 2004.
Five generations of an Iowa family say they plan to participate in the Iowa caucuses for the first time.
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has spent $10.2 million on television advertising this year -- a record amount at this point in a presidential campaign -- according to new data provided to CNN.
A wide-open presidential race and a willingness by candidates, interest groups, unions and corporations to buy TV time will lead to historic spending for political and issue-advocacy advertising in the 2008 election cycle, an analysis shows.
CNN's Tom Foreman reports on the record spending expected in the 2008 campaign's TV political ad wars.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Sen. John McCain are marking "firsts" in their bids for the Republican presidential nomination.
The Supreme Court's reversal of federal limits on independent political advertising has the potential to add "another X factor" to an already-unpredictable 2008 presidential race, one campaign finance analyst said Monday.
There typically aren't a lot of political advertisements in odd years since there aren't any Congressional races and no presidential election. But this odd year is shaping up to be a bit odder than the most.
It's been business as usual when it comes to political advertising this year: the nastier the better.
Elections and political issue spots hit a record $515 million this year, according to a news report Friday.
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Television advertising is the biggest single expenditure of a presidential campaign, a way for candidates to beam a message straight into living rooms without interference from the pesky press.
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