Outside groups were not particularly involved in this race, until last month, according to Federal Election Commission records. The Republican group Citizens for a Working America Inc. dropped $165,000 in TV advertising against Mayfield last week, and the American Conservative Union spent a modest $31,000 in radio ads in favor of Fleischmann earlier in the month.
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