Mitt Romney way ahead in TV, radio ad spending
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NEW YORK  - Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is taking an early lead in political ad spending, with his GOP presidential campaign running more TV ads than any other candidate.
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Mitt Romney takes GOP presidential rival John McCain to task on spending and immigration in a new advertising push in New Hampshire as he seeks to fend off the Arizona senator's challenge.
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Mitt Romney raised $14 million from April through June for his Republican presidential campaign and added an extra $6.5 million from his own personal wealth.
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John Kerry's campaign has bought or reserved airtime in 20 states to run ads between now and Nov. 2. His commercials are slated to start in each state and media market on a staggered basis, and in some states they may not run at all.
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It's money vs. momentum in the Republican presidential primary. Mitt Romney relied mostly on his personal fortune to pay for his campaign in the last quarter of 2007, as chief rival John McCain began resurrecting a bid that had been left for dead without a dime in the cash box, according to newly released federal campaign finance records.
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Bloomberg - July 20 (Bloomberg) -- Mitt Romney has attracted more donations from President George W. Bush&#39;s top fund-raisers than his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, Federal Election Commission records show.
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Facts and figures on spending in the presidential race:
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Total advertising expenditures in the first six months of 2006 increased 4.1 percent to $73.0 billion as compared to the prior year period, according to data released today by TNS Media Intelligence, the leading provider of strategic advertising and marketing information.
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The presidential election  is 14 months away and with as many as 17 candidates now  running, U.S. television and radio broadcasters are elated at  the prospect of billions more in advertising dollars.
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U.S. advertising spending rose 6.4 percent in the first half of 2004, driven by double-digit increases from top automakers and battleground state advertising for the two presidential candidates, tracking firm Nielsen Monitor-Plus said on Tuesday.
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Rasmussen Reports - The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows little change at the top of the Republican Presidential field, but former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has gained some ground on the frontrunners.
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The Christian Science Monitor - As a matter of logic, Mitt Romney would seem to have an edge going into Florida's Republican primary on Tuesday. The economy is the No. 1 issue, and the former Massachusetts governor clearly has the strongest economic portfolio of the Republican presidential candidates, as a megawealthy businessman, turnaround artist of the 2002 Olympics, and a state chief executive.
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Since emerging from a coast-to-coast slate of presidential contests on Feb. 5, Democrat Barack Obama has significantly outspent rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on television commercials, providing a crucial edge that helped push him to a rapid succession of primary and caucus victories.
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Mitt Romney, eager to establish credentials as a fiscal conservative in the Republican presidential race, will begin running a new ad Wednesday in which he vows to cut spending and taxes.
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US advertising spending rose 6.4 percent in the first half of 2004, driven by double-digit increases from top automakers and battleground state advertising for the two presidential candidates, tracking firm Nielsen Monitor-Plus said ...
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Mitt Romney's campaign found 9,732 ways to spend its money last quarter.
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Republican Mitt Romney burst from the pack to place more television ads than all of the other 2008 presidential contenders combined, a report issued Monday found.