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Only a phone off the hook will keep the Helms and Hunt forces from ringing and encouraging voters to exercise their most sacred rights. And in the mailbox, bills from the electric company barely outnumber "Dear Friend" fund-raising appeals from the candidates.
This ceaseless barrage adds up to a staggering figure: $22.1 million. As of October 17, Helms had raised $13.7 million and Hunt had raised $8.4 million, easily breaking all previous Senate campaign spending records. Cumulatively, they have spent about $7 per registered voter--enough to pay the salaries of all...
Sunday football, for example, takes a back seat to the commercials shown between posessions. Local radio stations, when not airing campaign ads, spin Helms-Hunt musical parodies. Ray Parker Jr.'s hit "Ghostbusters" has been dismembered so that the chorus repeatedly chimes "Who ya gonna call? Mudslingers! They ain't...
The contributions pour in from all over the nation. Almost two-thirds--64.4 percent--of Helms' major contributions have come from out of state, while Hunt has collected more than one-third --36.9 percent--of his major contributions out of state.
Well over three-quarters of the money ads has gone to campaign advertising. Through August, for instance, the candidates purchased air time for more than 15,000 commercials, roughly 11,000 for Helms and 4,000 for Hunt. Those numbers add up to about five and a half days of...