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Tuesday, September 8, 2009 7:00 PM

We are getting a dizzying number of e-mails this week from interest groups on the left and the right and what they are doing to promote their viewpoint on health care reform, so we thought we'd attempt to do a roundup of the highlights of the e-mails we received to put it in some kind of perspective:

Straddling that line between advocacy and education, libertarian think tank Cato Institute is planning to run radio ads on Washington's major news/talk radio stations for 10 days, starting today, to "educate" Americans about the problems with current congressional plans for health care reform.

MoveOn.org, meanwhile, has posted a new video with photos of people showing how they or friends and family members are suffering from lack of insurance, accompanied by a specially made soundtrack by rockers R.E.M. 

The conservative National Center for Policy Analysis and the Salem Radio Network have plans to use an ambulance, gurney and six conservative radio talk show hosts to deliver a petition opposed to current health reform legislation to Congress tomorrow.

The labor-backed Campaign for America's Future, meanwhile, is collecting signatures to petition Obama not to drop the public health insurance option, which the group promises to deliver to him before his speech tomorrow night. 

With all these competing interest group voices on the air waves, is anyone getting through?

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