I’ve received two emails from readers in the Hudson Valley stating that Scott Murphy’s Google ads are appearing automatically along with my piece on the race in New York’s 20th district. I cannot see those ads, and so I’m assuming it’s a local thing that Google does for advertisers.

If so, it’s a sign of just how extensive the ad buys have been on both sides, and how compressed this special election race has been in its timeframe. With all that money being spent, no stone remains unturned. On Albany and Poughkeepsie television, not one commercial break seemed to go by this weekend without two or more campaign-related ads. And now you can’t even visit NRO without seeing them.

For Murphy’s part, he has loaned his campaign $250,000, and raised another $900,000. The DCCC has spent $592,000 for him and against Tedisco. AFSCME has spent $106,000, the SEIU 1199 has spent $245,000, and the SEIU political education fund has spent $75,000.

On Tedisco’s side, the NRCC has spent $818,000. As of a week ago, Tedisco had raised $837,000 and loaned himself $200,000. The conservative National Republican Trust PAC has spent $780,000, and the Our Country Deserves Better PAC has thrown in $56,000.

All together, that’s approaching $5 million, and that doesn’t even include what the state and local parties are spending on the race. All of it had to be spent in less than two months in a relatively inexpensive broadcast market. They’re throwing around cash like they’re in Washington already — like Barack Obama, almost.