The CT Mirror pens an interesting piece this morning highlighting the work of the
Wesleyan Media Project.
According to their site, the Wesleyan Media Project was established in 2010 to track advertising in federal elections and is a successor to the Wisconsin Advertising Project, which tracked political advertising between 1998 and 2008. The project highlights that the amount of spending on Congressional TV ads from Jan. 1 through Sept. 15 came to $220 million, compared to $135 million over the same period in 2008. In Connecticut, spending for that period was $10.4 million. The volume of political ads is only going to increase over the next few weeks.
There is light at the end of the tunnel, however. Only 35 more days until election day and we can go back to commercials with real substance.
