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Query
How they overlap
Of the articles on each keyword in the last 7 days, with the same text and sources, how many also mention the other. Per lean: the share of its outlets' articles on advertising that mention campaign finance.
6.3% of the 48 articles on advertising also mention campaign finance, as do 3.8% of the 80 articles on campaign finance.
- Left-leaning2 of 15 articles
- 13.3%
- Least biased0 of 14 articles
- 0.0%
- Right-leaning1 of 19 articles
- 5.3%
Who picked it up when
Politico mentioned it first (Oct 21, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT). Right-leaning outlets followed 5 days later. No least biased outlet mentioned it.
One row per source with a matching article, from the most left-leaning on top: a dot for each article, on a bar for each stretch of its coverage (a pause of more than 24 hours starts a new one). Hover or tap a dot for the headline, click it to read the article.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Results
3 articles mention advertising and campaign finance in the last 7 days (Oct 20 to Oct 26).
| Article | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| PBS NewsHour | Campaigns spend big to sway voters with increasingly personal attack adsPBS NewsHour Campaigns and their allies are making their closing arguments, and they've spent more than the annual budgets of a handful of states doing it. Much of that money is aimed at voters' wallets, but the attacks are also getting more personal and more artificial. Lisa Desjardins explains. | 0.80 | |
| Washington Examiner | What are the most expensive midterm races?Washington Examiner The 2026 midterm elections are set to become the most expensive on record, as Republicans pour cash into battleground races to defy history and maintain control of Congress. Political advertising spending for this year surpassed $10 billion in October, marking an all-time high, according to media tracking group AdImpact, driven by record spending in states […] | 0.65 | |
| Politico | Why Republicans’ massive cash advantage is evaporating on the airwavesPolitico Across key Senate battlegrounds, Republicans’ cash advantage hasn’t led to an equally large amount of advertising time. | 0.60 |
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Narrow further
Other keywords in the matching articles: the share of them that mention each, with the number of articles. The search icon searches for advertising and that keyword instead of campaign finance, keeping the text, sources, source type and time range.
Coverage by source
The share of each source's stories in the last 7 days that match the query, from left to right. Sort the table to reorder the bars.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
| Politico | 3.1% | 1 | 32 |
| PBS NewsHour | 0.6% | 1 | 171 |
| Washington Examiner | 0.3% | 1 | 332 |
Coverage by lean
The share of stories that match the query, in the last 7 days, averaged over the outlets of each political lean with at least 3 stories. The groups differ in size, so a single outlet weighs more in the smaller ones.
- Left-leaning2 of 15 sources
- 0.3%
- Least biased0 of 8 sources
- 0.0%
- Right-leaning1 of 15 sources
- <0.1%
Lean index −2.7: covered more by left-leaning outlets
Each outlet at its MBFC bias score, from −10 (far left) to +10 (far right), as high as the share of its stories that match the query. The lean index is the average score of the outlets covering it, weighted by that share.
lean indexour sources' average (+0.4)leftcenterright
Bias scores by Media Bias/Fact Check.
1 source has no MBFC bias score and is not shown.
Source leans based on ratings by Media Bias/Fact Check.