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We've just learned that MoveOn is about to sink half a million dollars into a huge ad buy in North Carolina linking Elizabeth Dole, who's facing a tough re-election fight, to John McCain and Big Oil. Here's a first look at MoveOn's spot, which will run statewide starting tomorrow night: The ad, which highlights GOP support for tax breaks for oil companies, will be released sometime today in honor of McCain's high-profile trip to an oil rig. It's likely that the spot foreshadows more ads from MoveOn l

MoveOn sends over a new ad that's meant as a sequel to their earlier "Alex" spot, which featured a mother asking John McCain if her baby would be bound for Iraq under his "100 years" policy. The new spot is about gas prices, and features a worried middle-aged man directly addressing McCain and telling him that he'd "let me and my kids down" by pushing the "gimmick" of off-shore drilling as a genuine solution to the gas crisis... The idea with the spot is to dispel any lingering conception folks might h

MoveOn goes up with a new ad attacking John McCain for opposing a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq: The spot says that Americans and Iraqis want this thing to end, while McCain would continue to spend "hundreds of billions" to keep our troops in Iraq for "years and years." MoveOn will spend $100,000 to run the air on national cable, suggesting that the target audience is largely an insider one.