Democrats spend cash to fight ads
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WASHINGTON - The Democratic Party launched a costly round of ads Friday to buttress John Kerryâs credentials to be commander in chief as the White House accused the Massachusetts senator of âlosing his coolâ over attacks on his war record.
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Democrats looking for money to pay for health care priorities renewed their focus on insurers Thursday.
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Those incessant political ads aren't just on television. They're now on billboards, DVDs and even traffic reports.
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Democrats seeking votes for their Iraq-withdrawal plan have stuffed the bill it's in with billions of dollars for farms, flu preparedness, New Orleans levees, home heating and other causes.
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Following the lead of President Bush's political team, John Kerry's presidential campaign will launch a new television ad Saturday that broadly refers to his party's agenda and gives him access to as much Democratic National Committee money as he wants.
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Republican and Democratic party strategists are rethinking their spending, shoving money for television advertising into states where their candidates need a boost and shaving it from contests that appear safe or hopeless.
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The three Democrats at the agency responsible for enforcing campaign finance rules attended last week's Democratic convention at taxpayers' expense, and Republican members of the Federal Election Commission plan to do the same later this month.
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Democratic candidates for president are outpacing Republicans in donations from the health care industry.
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Officials at Commerce Insurance, the state's largest auto insurer, contributed thousands of dollars to two influential Democratic state senators up for reelection this year, according to state campaign finance records filed this month.
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Democratic presidential challenger John Kerry appealed for an end to the advertising war that has pitted his supporters against those of President George W. Bush.
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Interest groups that can urge the public to vote for or against candidates have spent at least &#36;25 million on the presidential race since Labor Day, with John Kerry's supporters outspending Bush's by more than 4-to-1.
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A concentrated burst of advertising is putting the candidatesâ strategies out in the open and is highlighting the diverging financial fortunes of the two parties.
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Republican campaign committees had a  significant $18 million financial advantage on Democrats  heading into the final months of the November 7 election battle  for control of Congress.
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Attack ads from a "Voters Education Committee" in Washington state aimed at a Democratic candidate were funded by a single &#36;1.5 million donor: the United States Chamber of Commerce.
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While there has been more Internet advertising activity in this year's presidential race than in the past, the money spent on Web ads still pales in comparison to that allocated for TV commercials, the first-ever study of online political ads found.    The study, released Monday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, said President Bush, Democrat John Kerry, their political parties and allied independent groups spent $2.6 million to post banner ads on Web sites from January through August...
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The Senate Democrats' fund-raising committee, trying to regain a Senate majority, led its Republican counterpart in contributions last month but has far less in the bank as the election approaches.
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Signaling a new phase in the struggle for control of Congress, House Democrats have reserved time for more than $30 million worth of campaign advertising this fall in roughly two dozen congressional districts, with a heavy emphasis on the Northeast and Midwest.