Republican National Committee

Barack Obama narrowly outspent John McCain on television advertisements during the second week of October, according to figures obtained by the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza. Between October 7 and 13, the Democrat spent $675,000, compared to $607,000 for his Republican counterpart. As MnIndy previously reported, in recent weeks Minnesota had been one of the few [...]

The Republican National Committee is leaning on the TV networks to refuse to air the anti-John McCain spot made by its counterparts at the DNC and released over the weekend. (We posted the :30 ad here.) The RNC is thereby trying to take out of play once and for all McCain’s repeated claims that he [...]