Published 8/20/2008
by Domenico Montanaro
at First Read
From NBC's Domenico Montanaro A new Obama TV ad lays out his argument to working- and middle-class voters on why they should choose him over rival John McCain.
"John McCain’s tax plan: For big corporations -- $200 billion in new tax breaks," an announcers says. "Oil companies -- $4 billion. Companies shipping jobs overseas keep their tax giveaways. While 100 million Americans get no tax relief at all."
The McCain campaign has run several ads knocking Obama on taxes -- misleadingly -- with the demographic.
The Obama campaign says the ad, entitled "Three Times," will run in the battlegrounds of Colorado, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Virginia.
The title reflects that Obama has proposed a tax cut for the middle class that is three times what McCain's plan calls for.
By the way, the ad's tag line: "Barack Obama. President." Does that remind anyone else of this ?
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