Ad blitz
Rep. Cynthia A. McKinney is grabbing all the face time she can get with voters between now and Tuesday's runoff election.
The embattled Georgia Democrat bought cable television ads that are scheduled to air 1,175 times in a five-day period, which began yesterday, according to public filings at the Comcast Spotlight Atlanta office.
The ads are running in four different coverage zones DeKalb County, North DeKalb, West Gwinnett County and Rockdale County and are evenly spread across seven networks: CNN, Lifetime, the Family Channel, TV One, BET, the History Channel and the Oxygen Network. Mrs. McKinney's campaign paid $9,578 for the ads, the Associated Press reports.
Mrs. McKinney did not buy cable ads before the primary, but her opponent, Hank Johnson, did. Mr. Johnson spent $5,369 for 475 cable ads that aired on a dozen networks in the same four zones.
As of yesterday, Mr. Johnson's campaign had not contacted Comcast about cable television advertising.
Mrs. McKinney and Mr. Johnson have also been battling over radio airwaves and had their first televised showdown Tuesday, which aired nationwide on C-SPAN. The candidates will again address potential voters tomorrow in the last televised debate before Tuesday's vote. 
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