Television ads from the Republican National Committee for Republican presidential candidate John McCain will be absent from Wisconsin airwaves in the next week.
Wisconsin television stations in Eau Claire, Green Bay and Milwaukee revealed Wednesday the RNC has not bought any new TV time for the week of Oct. 15 to Oct. 21 and has not indicated it would make any new purchases after the 21st.
The RNC will also not be running television ads in Maine.
A day before the RNC's decision to pull ads from these two states, a Quinnipiac University poll showed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama ahead of McCain in Wisconsin by 17 points, suggesting he has a growing lead in the state.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the McCain campaign can still run its own ads in these states, but has limited money to do so because McCain chose to accept public funding for his campaign.
