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
 
April 17th 2009
In our view, April 17: Equal Voting
Columbian

Editorial in the Columbian in favor of the national popular vote plan, which is likely to be passed into law soon in the state of Washington.

February 5th 2009
Push continues to defeat Electoral College
Associated Press

Associated Press wire story on National Popular Vote moving in Vermont features FairVote analysis

January 20th 2009
Initiative could make elections more fair
The Columbia Tribune

Missouri ally of the National Popular Vote plan writes oped in local paper.

January 10th 2009
Abolish the Electoral College
Sarasota Herald Tribune

Editorial strongly in favor of a national popular vote for president via constitutional amendment or the 'compelling' National Popular Vote plan.

December 22nd 2008
Time to eliminate Electoral College?
Post-Tribune

Editorial supports a national popular vote for president, citing FairVote's research.

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