If all the ads and mailers didn’t tell you, campaign finance reports for the first two weeks of October should: candidates’ spending in Virginia’s battleground congressional districts has ballooned.
That’s a sign that those races may still be up for grabs, even if many voters had long before made up their minds and an unusually large number have already voted.
In the 1st Congressional District, the combined average daily total spent by Republican Rep. Rob Wittman and his Democratic challenger, Shannon Taylor, jumped by 169% from their mid-July through September totals.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
