White House hopefuls burn millions on TV
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With just days to make last-minute pitches to voters in two dozen states, the presidential candidates are pouring millions into television advertising before Super Tuesday.
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Democratic hopeful gambles on challenge to former president, accusing him of distorting facts
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President Bush burned through more than half of his &#36;75 million government grant to cover his general-election campaign costs in September, leaving him with just under &#36;37 million left for the final month before the Nov. 2 election.
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WASHINGTON  The hottest campaign in town this week? It&#39;s not for president. It&#39;s for Idol. Producers for Fox&#39;s top-rated talent series estimate that 21,000 candidates and their supporters ...
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The outcome of the 2008 White House election remains up in the air, but one thing is certain -- the bid to succeed President George W. Bush will be the most expensive race in history.
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Televised duel is most vicious yet in contest, as Obama takes risk of attacking rival's husband
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New revelations that White House aides tried twice in the past two years to persuade President Bush to fire Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld fueled a caustic election-season debate yesterday over the president's wartime leadership and underscored divisions within his administration.
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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN&#39;s efforts to run PRESIDENT BUSH from the WHITE HOUSE has seen him incur the wrath of a conservative NEW YORK politician who has launched a BOYCOTT THE BOSS&#39;television campaign.
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Democrats accused President George W. Bush's campaign of doctoring a picture featured in a television spot and demanded that the advertisement be withdrawn.
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Ground zero for the country's costliest House race is Dallas, where two congressmen shoehorned into the same new district have each raised &#36;4.1 million &#151; and counting &#151; to bash each other with television ads and sophisticated mailings.
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A conservative media watchdog organization charged Wednesday that the network morning news shows have spent considerably more time this year on Democrats running for president than on Republicans.
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CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush denounced TV ads by outside groups attacking both John Kerry and himself on Monday and called for a halt to all such political efforts. "I think they're bad for the system," he said...
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When a Republican-funded group of Vietnam veterans sought to run a blistering television ad accusing John Kerry of lying about his decorated war record, Democrats quickly fired off a letter to broadcasters imploring them not to air the "inflammatory, outrageous lie."
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The battle for Ohio in last year's presidential campaign came with a huge price tag: &#36;100 million for television advertising alone, according to a new study.
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Resentment has been building at how presidential elections have become gold mines for media consultants.
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Variety - NEW YORK -- Democratic politicians and consumer groups are outraged over the plan by 62 TV stations owned by the Sinclair Broadcasting Group to carry a primetime documentary attacking Sen. John Kerry.
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A group of Democratic insiders that has spent some &#36;40 million on advertising against President Bush is rolling out new campaign commercials telling urban blacks "don't keep getting played" and accusing Bush of turning his back on them.