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MIDWEST —These reports examines campaign finance laws and the ways they’ve worked – or haven’t worked – to limit the influence of money on politics in Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin.State Reports Illinois report Michigan…
CHICAGO – In the month leading up to the recent 2006 mid-term elections, local television news viewers got considerably more information about campaigns from paid political advertisements than from actual news coverage, a new study shows. Local newscasts…
MADISON, Wisconsin -- In the month following the traditional Labor Day kickoff of the 2006 election campaign season, television stations in nine Midwest markets devoted an average of 36 seconds to election coverage during the typical 30-minute local news broadcast,…
