11.   But the ad she chose to air, which harshly described the mayor as indifferent to neighborhood concerns, sounded very much like a campaign commercial.

12.   Campaign commercials that House Republicans ran last year alluding to the Clinton scandal were widely judged to have backfired, helping cost the Republicans five House seats.

13.   Dozens of Republicans ran campaign commercials of Democratic members metamorphosing into Clinton, and the president was considered a drag on the Democratic ticket in much of the country.

14.   Equally stunning, however, has been the emergence of the television campaign commercial, a tectonic shift that is rattling the entire system.

15.   Finally, he decided to defy precedent and broadcast campaign commercials a year and a half before the election.

16.   Fong quoted Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a University of Pennsylvania expert on televised campaign commercials, who said the subtle link to ethnicity and race was inappropriate.

17.   He also said he wants to air campaign commercials, if money can be found to pay for them.

18.   He even apologized for this in his campaign commercials.

19.   He expects that Forbes will spend millions of dollars on negative campaign commercials cutting George W. Bush down to size.

20.   He had raised less money than Waldon, who had begun broadcasting campaign commercials this week.