Many politicians are currently afraid that opposing the NRA would lead the organization to stop providing their campaigns with either cash contributions or in-kind support (such as advertisements and other forms of advocacy).

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Perhaps there were some financial incentives, such as shared advertisements, hoped-for help in order fulfillment or some other reason.

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Now device specific advertisements, such as full-page ads in tablet news-readers, are emerging at a rapid pace.

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Many bloggers put post advertisements from services such as Google 's AdWords, but revenue for all but the most popular sites are usually on the order of pennies per day.

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Many bloggers put post advertisements from services such as Google 's (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) AdWords, but revenue for all but the most popular sites are usually on the order of pennies per day.

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Their advertisements inflame our baser instincts, such as pride, lust, envy and greed.

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Services such as Google's AdSense, which places text advertisements on blogs and generates a few cents per mouse click, might bring in some spare change.

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These are issue-advocacy groups not covered under the McCain-Feingold bill, which restricted party fundraising for candidates and banned special interests, such as the NRA or NOW, from mentioning candidates' names in advertisements for specific time periods prior to an election.

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The votes of such citizens may prove decisive in electing a candidate who will help determine government spending of trillions of dollars, but far less is spent today on political advertisements that bolster our democracy than on consumer products such as toothpaste.

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Advertisements for iPhone apps are starting to pop up on sites such as Facebook.

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We can now fast-forward through commercials, black out banner ads and I suppose close our eyes when we drive past billboards (not recommended), and as such, companies are desperately trying to think of new ways to force feed us advertisements.

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True, their advertisements do not criticise each other, though they sometimes bad-mouth rivals such as Amex.

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