Why are the presidential candidates spending so much time raising so much money? To buy TV ads. In Ad Watch, we review the results of their heroic efforts as they come out. Today: President Obama has ...

The general election has begun! And so has the onslaught of campaign ads. Which ones succeed? Which fail? In Ad Watch, we review them as they come out. Today: President Obama goes after Mitt Romney's ...

Yahoo News’ Chris Wilson reports that the show whose political advertising skews most Republican is The Andy Griffith Show. For Democrats, it’s a show a smidgen less wholesome: “2 Broke Girls” swung ...

Former President Obama appeared in a new ad for California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) redistricting effort on Tuesday, warning that Republicans want to steal congressional seats to “rig” next year’s ...

Holy fucking shit. This is the most brutal attack ad I’ve seen in a long, long time. It minces the hell out of Romney’s offshore fortunes and his record as a jobs exporter (in the private and public ...

Obama's target is an ad by the conservative American Issues Project, a nonprofit group that questions Obama's ties to Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground organization that took credit for a ...

President Obama's reelection campaign is up with a new ad hitting Mitt Romney over his comments about Big Bird at last week's debate. The ad features images of notorious corporate villains Bernie ...

What it says: The audio is taken entirely from GOP rival Mitt Romney's comments at a May fundraiser, recently posted online, about how 47 percent of the country will vote for Obama "no matter what" ...

Hoping to break away in the polls, both John McCain and Barack Obama have been increasing their ad buys in recent weeks. Both candidates are spending big to run ads during the Olympics. And for help ...