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Barack Obama has purchased a half-hour of prime time television just before the presidential election, Access Hollywood has confirmed.
According to documents viewed by Access, the Democratic presidential candidate spent $891,250 at NBC and $961,000 at CBS for a half-hour of airtime starting at 8 PM on October 29. The election is November 4.
If Republican candidate John McCain has reached out for an equal opportunity.
This will be the first time a presidential candidate has purchased 30 minutes of prime time TV since Ross Perot in the 1992 election.

Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin named her child after Van Halen. An article on People goes into things that people don’t know about her and one of the points was that she is a rock fan. Nothing wrong with that but that’s how she picked out her son’s name, Trig Paxton Van Palin. Palin’s friend of 12 years states that Palin used to say “How cool was that to have a kid named Van Palin?”