Not since Ross Perot's quirky candidacy in 1992 has a presidential candidate purchased such major amounts of airtime to advertise himself. Obama goes on the air at 8pm tonight with a half-hour infomercial running on CBS, NBC, Fox, and various cable networks that is estimated to cost at least $3 million in total. (ABC chose not to participate.)
Enjoying a major cash advantage over the John McCain campaign, the Obama campaign has been able to place advertising in all sorts of ...