The Biden-Harris campaign has placed its first ad in an NFL game. The spot, ”Got to Work,“ will air during the NFL season opener Thursday night (September 7) between the reigning Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs and the Detroit Lions.

The ad argues that the president has “defied the odds” to “avoid economic catastrophe” while at the same time “lowering costs, bringing back manufacturing, and creating good-paying jobs for the American people.”

The spot is part of a 16-week, $25 million, flight that will run on broadcast — the Chiefs-Lions game is on NBC — in Phoenix, Atlanta, Detroit, Las Vegas, North Carolina, Philadelphia, and Milwaukee, and on cable on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC.

A new Wall Street Journal poll suggests the campaign, which highlights Biden policy wins, could be important given that a third of voters have said the drumbeat of allegations against son Hunter Biden makes them less likely to vote for the president, and more than half said they thought he was too old to run for a second term. The president will be 81 in November 2023.

Showtime and CBS’ late night series The Late Show With Stephen Colbert will team to produce a live election night special, Stephen Colbert’s Live Election Night Democracy’s Series Finale: Who’s Going To Clean Up This Sh*t?’, the network said Monday.

The unprecedented partnership will bring Colbert and his political satire to Showtime for a live, real time, no hold barred accounting of the election results as the returns come in, said network officials. The one-hour special will air Nov. 8 at 11 p.m., according to Showtime.

The special, which will air live from the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City with a studio audience, will also feature remote segments and several surprise guests.

"It'll be all the political comedy you love from my CBS show, with all the swearing and nudity you love from Showtime," said Colbert said in a statement.

The kick-off to the 2016 presidential campaign will kick off in the cloud, the Microsoft cloud that is, with what the company calls the future of "civic engagement technology." And take heed electronic election map fans, you will get your own shot at point and zoom election results.

Iowa Caucus organizers, Republican and Democrat, have teamed with Microsoft on a new, cloud-enabled app that will deliver precinct results to their respective party headquarters, where they can then be provided to the press.

The caucuses are the first primary event of the presidential election season.

The smart phone and tablet apps will be available for each party, plus a verification ap to help monitor and validate those results.

Once they are validated, they will be instantly shared with the media and public through an interactive Web ap, according to Microsoft. Watch out John King and other election wall gurus. The results will be visually represented on an onscreen map where viewers will be able to zoom in to individual counties and precincts.

Microsoft bills the new system as "robust, reliable, and most importantly, accurate."