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Published 10/15/2008 by chadwick.matlin at The Big Money
The closest most voters will come to seeing Barack Obama and John McCain is through the television in their own living room. With three weeks to go before the election, the candidates are spending gobs of money on advertising in the hopes that the endless repetition of 30-second clips will sway undecideds.
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