As such, Putin doesn't deign to carry himself like a candidate: this electoral cycle, as always, he did not participate in televised debates, and, this time around, he even declined to be filmed or lend his voice to his campaign's official advertisements.
Last month, Donald Trump's campaign released its first official TV advertisement.
The reason children need to be protected from same-sex marriage was never articulated in official campaign advertisements.
In New Jersey, election officials placed advertisements in newspapers asking people to sign up to work the polls.
New York magazine successfully sued the authority in 1997 after transit officials removed advertisements poking fun at Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, at his request.
Victims' computers are drafted into a "botnet," or network of infected PCs, and are sent official-looking advertisements of fake antivirus software and their Web searches are also hijacked and the clicks delivered to unscrupulous marketers.
While meeting with the French prime minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, today in Ottawa, he used the French official as an advertisement for Canadian beef.
Campaign officials said the advertisement would be relatively simple, featuring Mr. Thompson talking directly to the camera about the announcement he was about to make.
But officials said the advertisement was being extended not as an attempt to counteract the negative press she has received over the ancestry issue but because it told a compelling story about her.
