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Barack Obama places ad in video game
Barack Obama has a problem. Since he didn’t accept campaign finances from the public coffers, he was able to raise unlimited amounts of money for his campaign. The problem is, he’s raised so much of it, and it’s still coming in, and he can’t use any of it after election day. So he’s doing interesting things with it—running ads in red states like Indiana, for instance. But the Obama campaign also paid the developers of the XBOX 360 racing game Burnout Paradise to place an ad for him on one of the in-game billboards that line the track. The link is to a screenshot of the ad in the game.