Google's Online Ad sales for Congress, other electeds

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Part of the background on the YouTube/Congressional channels.

excerpt from Ad Age: “The end of an election season usually means
dismantling the campaign apparatus until the next cycle. But not at
Google; not this year…Rather than packing it all away until 2010, it’s
hoping to build a year-round political-advertising business one House
seat and hot-button issue at a time. “There are 500,000 elected
officials in the U.S. With the advances we’ve made in geo-targeting,
we think this will be part of every political campaign in the country,
as well as issue campaigns,” said Peter Greenberger, Google’s director
of election and issue advocacy…Google doesn’t yet offer targeting
based on congressional districts, but with ZIP code and city
targeting, politicians and advocacy groups can cobble together a
reasonable approximation of a congressional district."

Election Is Over, but Google's Still Chasing Political Spending.
Michael Learmonth. Ad Age, Jan. 12, 2009
http://adage.com/abstract.php?article_id=133665