In Minnesota TV advertising, McCain outspent Obama 5-1 in last week of September

If you’re curious to know how confident the Obama campaign feels about its widening lead in Minnesota, here’s a dollars-and-cents clue. According to figures released by the University of Wisconsin Advertising Project late last week, the presidential campaigns of John McCain and Barack Obama spent over $28 million nationally on TV advertising during the week of Sept. 28-Oct. 4. And there’s an interesting anomaly in the Minnesota totals: Among states identified as Midwestern battlegrounds — by UWAP’s reckoning, these are Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania (?) and Wisconsin — Minnesota is one of only two where McCain outspent Obama (the other is Iowa), and by a whopping margin of almost exactly 5-1 ($608,000 – $121,000).