"Florida's TV stations are the big winners in Bush's first campaign ad blitz, station figures show," the Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire reports. "The Bush-Cheney re-election committee bought more than $860,000 in ad time in that 2000 battleground state -- more than double the next-biggest buys in Pennsylvania and Michigan."
However, because of the contradiction noted yesterday, the Bush campaign's ad campaign got off to a rocky start. The New York Times notes the campaign and White House "stepped up today their defense of three new advertisements that use images of the smoldering remains of the World Trade Center, arguing that the device is appropriate in an election campaign that will be waged, in part, on the candidates' abilities to fight the war on terror."
Meanwhile, Garance Franke-Ruta is outraged over the Bush ads. "If Bush wants to get into a big, public fight with them about the quality of his leadership and whether or not it's offensive to use 9/11 imagery in political ads, Democrats around the country should all cheer that move."
Luke Francl wonders whether the outrage will continue.
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