2008 Presidential Ad Spending
The following is a summary of campaign ad spending by the 2008 major party candidates for the week of October 6- October12, 2008. This chart will be updated weekly as Election Day approaches. This data was collected from http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/15/143149/87.*In thousands.
| State | McCain this week | McCain last week | Change | Obama this week | Obama last week | Change | Total this week | Total last week | Total change |
| CO | 647 | 838 | -191 | 923 | 987 | -64 | 1570 | 1825 | -255 |
| FL | 1,154 | 686 | 468 | 4330 | 2224 | 2106 | 5484 | 2910 | 2574 |
| IA | 434 | 299 | 135 | 376 | 176 | 200 | 810 | 475 | 335 |
| IN | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1804 | 628 | 1176 | 1804 | 628 | 1176 |
| ME | 37 | 0 | 37 | 154 | 59 | 95 | 191 | 59 | 132 |
| MI | 0 | 720 | -720 | 1583 | 1586 | -3 | 1583 | 2306 | -723 |
| MN | 531 | 652 | -121 | 560 | 237 | 323 | 1091 | 889 | 202 |
| MO | 674 | 200 | 474 | 1141 | 1586 | -445 | 1815 | 1786 | 29 |
| MT | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173 | 73 | 100 | 173 | 73 | 100 |
| NC | 833 | 157 | 676 | 1208 | 1180 | 28 | 2041 | 1337 | 704 |
| NH | 118 | 189 | -71 | 470 | 349 | 121 | 588 | 538 | 50 |
| NV | 416 | 320 | 96 | 878 | 626 | 252 | 1294 | 946 | 348 |
| NM | 297 | 320 | -23 | 878 | 198 | 680 | 1175 | 518 | 657 |
| OH | 816 | 1128 | -312 | 2362 | 2229 | 133 | 3178 | 3357 | -179 |
| PA | 1780 | 1322 | 458 | 3337 | 2264 | 1073 | 5117 | 3586 | 1531 |
| VA | 285 | 319 | -34 | 3305 | 1969 | 1336 | 3590 | 2288 | 1302 |
| WI | 622 | 710 | -88 | 1189 | 1158 | 31 | 1811 | 1868 | -57 |
| WV | 59 | 46 | 13 | 34 | 52 | -18 | 93 | 98 | -5 |
| Cable | 4 | 51 | -47 | 1377 | 307 | 1070 | 1381 | 358 | 1023 |
| National | 90 | 1530 | -1440 | 6633 | 307 | 6326 | 6723 | 1837 | 4886 |
| Total | 8800 | 9360 | -560 | 32242 | 17867 | 14375 | 41042 | 27227 | 13815 |