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Welcome back. with 14 days to go until election day, the presidential candidates are hop-scotching all over the map spending their time and resources in the battleground states that will decide the election. >> it is nitty-gritty time. theyre targeting voters in ways you probably dont even realize. abcs john donvan tells us exactly what theyre doing. >> reporter: as this tight election heads towards a photo finish, there are really two presidential campaigns taking place. there is the one you sa...

>> they know a lot and made assumptions about you. >> reporter: theyre not at your door by accident? >> not at all. we are way past accidents. >> reporter: which means campaign ads are popping up in the unlikeliest places, like the obama ads in video games. >> one of the variables of obamas campaign in 2008, was to predict support for him, presence of a teenager in the household. they went out and found video games where you can buy ads in the video games and bought early vote reminders. >> repo...

War that we ought to use on building up our own country. >> reporter: the liberal was in fashion, but his cant campaign was a mess. his pick for vice president, tom eagleton, was dropped by mcgovern once it came out eagleton had been hospitalized for mental illness. >> theres not much cause for dancing in the streets of sioux falls, south dakota tonight. >> reporter: on election day he lost every state but massachusetts, and the democratic party lost once loyal voters who would never return. so ...

Any such talks are in the works. well, funeral services are set for this friday in south dakota for george mcgovern, the former senator and presidential candidate died yesterday at age 90. abcs john donvan has a look back at his years of service to the nation. >> reporter: when george mcgovern was running for the white house in 1972 at a campaign stop in arkansas the kid who met him at the airport, thats right, bill clinton. a good enough way to show how that 72 campaign and the legacy of geor...

Be told ♪ i want to hear more of the song. >> thats funny. >> lets hear more. a giant of the publishing world has moved into the digital age for good. editors of "newsweek" announcing the magazine will issue its last print version on december 31st. >> kind of sad. it will live on in digital form. as abcs john donvan reports, "newsweek" will never again hold the place in american life that it once did. >> reporter: it was there always, just plain there, and sort of everywhere, but now the s...

Only one winner every week because there could only be one cover every week. hence, the magazine of news significance. not that "newsweek" the organization is dead now. it will live on digitally as ""newsweek"" global, readable worldwide on all platforms except for the ones that kill trees. with ad revenues down and a generation that prefers screens to paper it makes sense. ♪ may the coming days ♪ going to take me away >> reporter: from hearing paul simon singing "me and julio down in the sc...

♪ cheeseburger in paradise ♪ heaven on earth ♪ now this next story either seems like a dream come true or a disaster waiting to happen. eating fast food every day and getting paid thousands to do it. >> big money here. its all a new experiment conducted by doctors to measure exactly what fast food diets can do to you. abcs john donvan has the story. >> reporter: hitting the fast food drive through for science. >> can i get five soft tacos? >> can i get two sausage burritos? >> can i get ...

Nixon, just out of the hospital, pale, refusing professional makeup. reagans people fussed more over his than mondales did over his. reagan always had a glass of wine just before going on to get those rosy cheeks. lesson four, real debating? so far, after 52 years, not actually required here. so relax. learn your lines. dont sneak in a look at your wristwatch. because that will definitely hurt you. beside, 90 minutes and you are done. possibly for good. john donvan, abc news, washington. >> poss...

So i know how important that is. ♪ ♪ if i had a million dollars ♪ we wouldnt have to walk the floor ♪ we wouldnt be doing the show right now. >> if you had $200 million. millions of people dreamed mig this morning. if you live in michigan, i misspoke. 300 million to do so. >> one more reason to live in michigan. last nights powerball jackpot was $337 million. like, $200-something million in the cash buyout. this morning we learned that at least one winning ticket sold at a sunoco stati...

Family that every american family enjoyed. an amazing 11 seasons with hemsley at its head. not bad for a kid raised by a mom who worked in a factory and delivered mail while he was studying to be an actor. in his 74 years, as the song says, he moved up and took us with him. john donvan, abc news, washington. >> the reason i think that is such an important story. in terms of black portrayal on tv, we went from junkyard of "sanford and son" to the projects of "good times" and deluxe apartment in t...