Study: Obama Bounce Tied to Ad Strategy

Overall convention spending was light

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President Obama may have his ad strategy to thank for his post-Democratic National Convention 6 percentage point bounce.

Both parties avoided a heavy ad schedule during the convention weeks. But Obama and the PACs favoring him aired more than twice the number of ads aired by GOP challenger Mitt Romney and the pro-Romney PACs. Now, a new analysis is tying that heavier ad schedule to Obama's bounce in the polls.

According to the Wesleyan Media Project's analysis of Kantar Media Campaign Media Analysis Group data between Aug.

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