Up in Washington state, the “Shadow“ Committee for Truth in Politics is running this ad hitting Patty Murray. It seems like a concise description of the frustration with Congress today.

It’s running for “1000 [gross rating] points,” I am told, which a GOP consultant described as roughly standard for a campaign message in the month of October. Another advertising guy described it to me as, “a 100 GRP buy means that everyone in the station’s audience has been exposed to the message an average of once (i.e., some once, some twice, some not at all). With a 1000 GRP buy, everyone in the audience is exposed to the message an average of 10 times. This is a heavier than average buy but not necessarily overwhelming.”

UPDATE: I knew this race would be close, but this result is interesting: “In an election for United States Senator from the state of Washington today, 08/20/10, Republican challenger Dino Rossi jumps from the primary slightly ahead of incumbent Democrat Patty Murray 52 percent to 45 percent, according to a new SurveyUSA poll conducted exclusively for KING-5 TV News in Seattle.”