By Liz Halloran The major-party presidential nominees continued to dump record amounts of money into television advertising, spending more than $28 million

WASHINGTON - Heading into their final month of campaigning, Barack Obama last week outspent Republican presidential rival John McCain on television ads by 3 to 1 in battleground states like Florida and Virginia and by 8 to 1 in North Carolina.
A non-partisan study released Wednesday by the Wisconsin Advertising Project also showed that nearly all of the TV ads aired by the McCain team carried "negative" or harsh overtones, reflecting the more aggressive rhetoric heard on the stump from McCain and running mate Sarah Palin.
a had a $6 million edge in spending over McCain and the Republican National Committee, which is helping McCain air his ads.

WASHINGTON - Heading into their final month of campaigning, Barack Obama last week outspent Republican presidential rival John McCain on television ads by 3

Some nice details on the geography of ad spending from the Wisconsin Advertising Project, which reports that McCain's buy in the week leading up to October