Santorum Plays to His Audience, Toy in Hand Wielding an Etch A Sketch toy on stage in Mandeville, La., on Wednesday, Rick Santorum made a mockery of Mitt Romney's campaign, pointing out that he would not be redrawn. New Focus on Publicizing Information About Political TV Ads Our colleagues over on the Media Decoder blog report that the Federal Communications Commission has proposed that the "public files" that local TV stations keep in their offices about political ads be put online so the public can easily review them. The broadcasters have objected. Our colleagues over on the Economix blog follow up on an article from the weekend that looked whether (or not, mostly) gas prices might affect the presidential election.