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"FacebookPinterestromney pac.jpg\n\n \"It's kind of sad!\" an employee at a Phoenix news station told me on Monday. I'd come to pull the records of political ad buys over the last few weeks, but there wasn't much to get: none of the campaigns were on the air here\u2014just, you guessed it, a super-PAC. The sales manager handed over a few stapled sheets detailing an extensive monthlong buy from Restore Our Future, the pro-Romney outfit. Santorum's own super-PAC had been up on the air for a while, but then they went dark, presumably husbanding their resources for states where Santorum had a better shot. According to the documents, Restore Our Future spent $190,000 on ads in the Phoenix market from January 30 through Election Day. If you live here in the 12th-largest television market in America, an anti-Santorum spot called \"Votes\" was only political message you saw in the closing days:\n\nHow did Rick Santorum actually vote? Santorum voted to raise the debt limit five times. And for billions in wasteful projects including the \"Bridge To Nowhere.\" In a single session, Santorum co-sponsored 51 bills to increase spending and zero to cut spending. Santorum even voted to raise his own pay\u2014and joined Hillary Clinton to let convicted felons vote. Rick Santorum: big spender, Washington insider.\n\nNo rebuttal from Santorum, no attacks on Romney, and 20-point romp for the frontrunner. For the good people of local television, though, it's less a question of democracy and more a question of budgeting. Enormous political ad buys, annoying as they are for the rest of us, can be a golden ticket for small stations. The princely red-brick headquarters of New Hampshire's WMUR, for example, has been called \"The House that Forbes Built,\" for all the spots the multimillionaire bought for his 1996 campaign. No such windfall materialized for the Arizona market. \"We were hoping for a little more action,\" the sales manager said."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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