"It was over something stupid," Mr. Fox recalled, about the placement of a campaign sign.
Connecticut's 169 cities and towns are rife with rules governing the placement, size, and number of campaign signs homeowners can put on private property, and the disagreements over the signs can be more contentious than the races they advertise.
Peter Angelos, owner of the Baltimore Orioles, continues to campaign against placement of the Expos in what he considers Orioles territory.
Wunderloop has an behavioural ad and content technology designed to to improve the efficiency of online ad placement and campaign management.
Some of Mr. Obama's expenses were the kind that traditionally eat up a lot of campaign cash, like the production and placement of television ads, on which the campaign spent about $3.4 million; mail and postage, which ate up $2.8 million; and telemarketing, which racked up a bill of $1.4 million.
Perhaps, she added, the applause would translate into an enthusiastic marketing campaign — starting with placement of the "Cloud Atlas" trailer before "The Dark Knight Rises," Warner's flagship 2012 summer release.
In one key respect – the placement of television ads — the 2008 Obama campaign stands in contrast to the other presidential bids of the last decade, including those of George W. Bush, John McCain, Al Gore and John Kerry.
The coordination rules only prohibit candidates and independent groups from discussing the placement, distribution and content of campaign-related ads, mailers, and get-out-the-vote and other activities.
As there is no placement mechanism for the candidates, men tend to dominate the top of the list, attracting the lion's share of campaign funding and, consequently, the electorate's attention.
When photos first appeared of his campaign bus, many noticed the strange placement of an audience member's hand – namely that it was cylindrical and held aloft in front of his crotch.
