Friday, December 28, 2007

Obama Seeks Live TV Commercial on Caucus Eve

By KATE SNOW, ABC News

Not to be outdone by Senator Hillary Clinton, ABC News has learned that Senator Barack Obama's campaign is buying advertising time on the night before the caucuses for a political commercial, to air statewide.

The Obama campaign made the request Friday morning. On Thursday, Clinton's campaign announced that she would buy a two minute block of time on every 6pm newscast in the state.

Obama's camp countered by requesting either a two or five minute window of time during the stations' local newscasts, during the period between local news and primetime programming, or during primetime.

And they tried to one-up Clinton -- not only asking for more time, but asking if the Senator could make his pitch live via satellite.

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