campaign update for the week of Oct. 4, 2010

For this campaign update, I wanted to focus on something that confused me during the past few weeks of the election campaign. My usual mourning routine is  I wake up and  always watch the Today Show.  One morning I was watching as usual, when I saw a attack ad against Robin Carnahan but it was not from the Blunt campaign, but from a special interest group.

A special interest group is a  group of citizens or corporations who support a candidate on one or two specific issues. So I already knew what a special interest group was, I was just confused why a Missouri senate campaign ad was being show in Southern Illinois. So I asked my professor and I found out that the reason was because of the small media market that surrounds Southern Illinois, Kentucky, and Missouri.

Since the election cycle is coming closer to an end, there are going to be more campaign ads, not just from Missouri, but from all the other campaigns in this media market. So I can expect more local campaign ads ruining my morning routine much more often!