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Politics
6:58 am
Tue October 16, 2012
Most Campaign Spending Doesn't Trickle Down to Small Businesses

Credit Sarah McCammon / Iowa Public Radio
Catherine Fields is the owner of Coffee Cat in Mason City. She says her coffee shop gets a little more traffic during campaign season, but nothing substantial.

Credit Sarah McCammon / Iowa Public Radio
Volunteers make phone calls at the Romney campaign office at a strip mall in Mason City.
Living in a swing state means never-ending TV ads, lots of attention from the candidates, and dozens of campaign offices spread all over your state.
But all that spending isn’t exactly trickling down to small businesses in local communities.
Instead, most of the spending goes to TV ads.
