Ad spending shows where the presidential campaign is really taking place

President Joe Biden appears at the NAACP Detroit branch Fight for Freedom Fund dinner in Detroit, Sunday, May 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

If you are one of the lucky people in the most hotly contested presidential states, you are seeing a lot of advertising.

And with just over five months to go until Election Day and only about three-and-a-half months until people start early voting, the deluge is just beginning.

The election is being fought most acutely in seven states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.