With Time Running Short, Campaigns Engage in a Noisy Air War

The campaigns of Sens Barack Obama (D-IL) and John McCain (R-AZ) are making their last-ditch advertising pitches in a loud, televised shouting match over health care and taxes, terrorism and presidential readiness, trying to sway the few remaining undecided voters or to push wavering supporters to the polls on Tuesday. Sen McCain is in many ways shouting into the roar of a locomotive. The nearly $21 million that Sen Obama spent on advertisements last week was nearly twice what Sen McCain and the Republican party had spent in the same period.