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Health-care ads swirling as sides state their cases

$57 million spent in 6 months on TV spots

By BY KATHARINE Q. SEELYE THE NEW YORK TIMES

Posted: August 16, 2009 at 6:09 a.m.

By the time President Barack Obama left Montana on Saturday, the Bozeman media market had been saturated with an advertisement opposing his health-care plan - hard for anyone to miss because it ran 115 times in 36 hours on network and cable television channels.

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