Republican-side groups booked $226,000 in airtime against $31,000 for Democratic-side groups, a 7.2-to-1 ratio, reversing the prior day, when Democratic-side groups booked $291,000 to Republican-side groups' $116,000, and Senate Leadership Fund booked $237,000 in the Toss-up Kansas Senate race.
Over the trailing seven days, Democratic-aligned groups led $40.19 million to $31.32 million, so today's Republican edge comes after a week in which Democrats were ahead. Republican-aligned groups booked $226,000 today against $31,000 for Democratic-aligned groups, compared with Democratic-aligned groups' $291,000 against Republican-aligned groups' $116,000 yesterday.
Kansas went from nothing yesterday to $268,000 today, with Republican-aligned groups accounting for $237,000 and Democratic-aligned groups supplying $31,000. Senate Leadership Fund, the super PAC aligned with Senate Republican leadership, booked $237,000 in the Kansas U.S. Senate Seat (Class II), rated Toss-up. A single $113,000 filing from Senate Leadership Fund accounts for 50 percent of the Republican-aligned total today ($226,000), all in the Wichita-Hutchinson Plus market. WinSenate, the super PAC aligned with Senate Democratic leadership, booked all $31,000 of the Democratic-aligned Kansas money, but its filing names no race. Republican-aligned groups hold $4.54 million reserved for flights still to run in Kansas against $0.86 million on the Democratic side.
Congressional Leadership Fund, the super PAC aligned with House Republican leadership, cut $10,275 across New Mexico. The largest single cancellation was a $9,000 cut in New Mexico's 2nd U.S. House District, rated Likely Democratic.
The forward book shows $0 Republican and $3,000 Democratic reserved for the week starting November 2, and $0 on both sides for the week starting November 9. New Democratic-side filings naming the Kansas Senate race for the week of November 9 are on record.
Methodology and caveats
The figures come from FCC political files, which cover broadcast, cable, radio and satellite stations but not digital or streaming advertising, and sides are assigned by each sponsor's classification as Republican-aligned or Democratic-aligned, with national party committees reported separately as a comparator and excluded from the sides' totals. Candidates' own airtime purchases are not included, and groups that buy no station airtime never appear in the files, so nonprofit spending is only partly visible. A filing is tied to a race only when the order names a candidate or prints the race; the rest is counted for its state alone. Filings appear in the file within a day or two of the order. All sanity checks passed.
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