He's putting a lot of chips in this... Imagine if he WINS in Iowa. He could really make a dent in NH and get a LOT of those cain/perry supporters after that.
The king of presidential advertising so far this year in Iowa’s largest television market is Ron Paul, a Des Moines Register review of public records shows.
The Texas representative has spent more than $230,000 on TV ads, more than six times that of any other candidate still in the race.
It also far overshadows the nearly $29,000 ad buy his Lone Star peer in the race, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, launched Wednesday.
For Iowans who dislike the quadrennial barrage of political ads leading up to the Iowa caucuses, there may be some good news: The total of $487,000 spent so far at the Des Moines CBS and NBC affiliates is a trickle compared to the nearly $8.6 million paid to those stations in the 2008 caucus cycle, $3.6 million of it by Republicans.
Candidates spent $38,935 at WOI-TV and $15,400 at KDSM-FOX this year. Ron Paul spent the vast majority at those stations, with $31,960 between both WOI and KDSM.
