The New York Times
In Waco, Tex., $350 will usually buy 30 seconds of advertising time on a local evening newscast. But not this week.
In a scene being repeated in markets across the country, the Democratic congressman who represents Waco and the surrounding region, Chet Edwards, has been fighting off a potent Republican challenger, Bill Flores, ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections.
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The beneficiaries are the local stations that have been inundated by campaign attack ads. “It’s swamped us,” said Phil Hurley of KCEN, the NBC affiliate in Waco More…