Obama's Running More Negative Ads Than McCain

20% more, according to a report from the TNS Media Intelligence Campaign Media Analysis Group (TNSMI/CMAG) and the University of Wisconsin Advertising Project.
via Marc Ambinder at TheAtlantic.com

The campaigns are spending about $15m in ads per week; each is spending about $7.8 million. most of McCain's ads are paid for with both McCain campaign money and money from the RNC; 97% of Obama's ads are paid for by the candidate. 77% of the Obama campaigns' ads were deemed "negative," compared to 56% for McCain.

And in a related bit of news, linked to by Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit, from a column by Karl Rove in the WSJ, he points out a very revealing slip from the Messiah that I've yet to see reported in the MSM:

...in an interview with ABC recently, Mr. Obama said, "If we're going to ask questions about who has been promulgating negative ads that are completely unrelated to the issues at hand, I think I win that contest pretty handily." That he is in fact winning the contest for the most negative campaign could well spell his defeat.