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Republicans are apparently taking all of this debt talk to heart. With the political season underway and the Iowa straw poll slated for Saturday, the GOP has turned into one frugal lot.
Certainly the big four network affiliates in Des Moines have seen an influx of spending from three of the nine GOP candidates competing in the straw poll: former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, Rep. Michele Bachman, Minn. and Rep. Ron Paul, Tex.
"It has accelerated in the last couple of weeks," said Paul Fredericksen, president and general manager of KCCI, Hearst Television's CBS affiliate in Des Moines.
"We had anticipated there would be more, but that has not happened," he added.
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