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It's instructive to compare the two ads that the campaigns unleashed today attacking each other on taxes.
McCain is up with a new radio spot that keeps up the attack line that Obama is a "celebrity" who would hike your taxes, to boot.
"Celebrities like to spend their millions," McCain's ad says. "Barack Obama is no different. Only it's your money he wants to spend." It's unclear where the ad is running.
Meanwhile, Barack Obama is up with a new spot attacking John McCain on taxes:
"Can we really affo
Here's a new ad running in New Mexico from an outfit called PowerPAC, which, as Ben Smith notes, is pretty much the only third party effort on the Dem side doing paid media in the presidential race:
The ad says that "Barack Obama believes it shouldn't matter" if you "look different" or if your "name is unusual."
Not to be churlish about it, but this ad strikes us as boring and whiny and defensive. It's partly geared towards Hispanic voters in the Southwest -- there's also a Spanish-language version --
Aug
19
Aug
19
The McCain campaign keeps the "celeb" sneer attack ad campaign going with this new Spanish-language radio ad that tweaks the main theme a bit: "Fame must be grand for Barack Obama. But is he ready to lead in tough economic times?"
The ad also lays it on thick with the "grand" crack, adding that Obama has a "grand history of raising taxes." As in, dahling, you're so grand.
The ad, which translates "grand" as "fabulosa," is running in Colorado, Florida, Nevada and New Mexico. Full script after the jump.
Aug
16
Aug
16
DNC Out-Raises RNC For First Time This Cycle
The Democratic National Committee has announced that they raised $27.7 million for the month of July, just edging out the RNC's $26 million, the first time this whole cycle that the usually-underfunded DNC has outdone the RNC. The DNC, including its joint committee with the Obama campaign, has $28.5 million cash on hand, bringing the Democratic total with the Obama campaign to $94.3 million -- just narrowly behind the Republicans' aggregate total of over $100 mil
Aug
15
Aug
15
The McCain campaign outdoes itself, releasing two "celeb" sneer ads in one day, the latest being this new spot that's going up in Ohio.
It offers a creative new twist on the "celeb" theme, with a narrator opining that "maybe the applause has gone to his head"...
McCain's ad is a response to the Obama campaign's criticism of the DHL merger, which FactCheck.org says is misleading.
Separately, it's sobering to think that the "celeb" sneer, with those shots of crowds chanting Obama's name as he supposedl
The McCain camp is out with yet another "celeb" sneer ad, this one drawing a shap contrast between Obama's allegedly vacuous popularity and the possession of real leadership qualities: "Celebrity? Yes. Ready to lead? No."
The ad somehow figures out a way of pinning higher gas prices on Obama's forthcoming tax hikes (in fact, he's calling for a middle-class tax cut), without explaining how it is that we now have soaring gas prices, even though Obama's phantom tax hikes haven't been implemented yet.
The s
Aug
14
Aug
14
Barack Obama and the DNC are seizing on Social Security's 73rd anniversary to launch a series of attacks on John McCain on the issue that try to link McCain with the original opponents of the program back in the 1930s (no, it's not a dig at McCain's age).
Obama uncorked a statement today hitting McCain for describing the program as an "absolute disgrace," adding: "The Bush privatization plan that Senator McCain now embraces would tell millions of elderly Americans that they're on their own, putting them at
Obama Running Negative Ad In Indiana
Barack Obama is running a targeted negative ad against John McCain in Indiana, reusing footage of McCain saying during the primaries that the economy was just fine. "How can John McCain fix the economy when he doesn't think it's broken?" the ad asks viewers:
McCain In Colorado Today
John McCain is campaigning today in Colorado, a state that has only voted Democratic once in the last 40 years but where most recent polls have put Barack Obama narrowly ahead. McCain has
Aug
13
Aug
13
Wow, such perfect timing! Below we noted at some length that the national media was failing to hold the McCain campaign accountable for its surrogates' pattern of questioning Obama's patriotism.
Now along comes a perfect example of this from Newsweek's Howard Fineman on MSNBC. Fineman was talking about Joe Lieberman's claim that Obama hasn't always put his country first:
Fineman said that while Lieberman's quote was clearly questionable, McCain himself wouldn't sanction it. "I still don't think if you s
We bet this will blow up into a big story today. The Tennessee GOP -- which has hit Obama with previous incendiary attacks such as that video hitting Michelle Obama's "proud of America" quote and that effort to tie Obama to anti-semites and Farrakhan -- has just done it again.
They're out with a new video linking Obama to Kwame Kilpatrick, the mayor of Detroit who just landed in the slammer for violating the conditions of his bond:
It's unclear when this took place, though it's all but certain that it
