marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 10/30/2008
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Here's the ad that tells voters: "just as you suspected, Barack Obama's wrong for you." taxes.mp3 Remember yesterday's post about an ad alleging Obama would "rob" seniors? Here's the spot, recut. No longer does it include that verb. healthcare.mp3
apps.wbez.org - 10/27/2008
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apps.wbez.org —
I came into work this morning to find
the radio program I once produced, Odyssey , on
the front page of Drudge . Over the weekend, someone posted audio clips on YouTube from a 2001 program we produced with Sen. Barack Obama as a guest. While we are ...
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Chicago Public Radio Blog » Barack Obama’s ...
huffingtonpost.com - 10/28/2008
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huffingtonpost.com —
Two new joint McCain-Palin/Republican National Committee radio ads
surfaced Tuesday morning, both of which suggest that Barack
Obama does not understand America. In one of the new spots, legendary country singer Hank Williams Jr. pounces on the ...
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New McCain-RNC Radio Ads Use Obama "Bitter" Comment, ...
marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 10/29/2008
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marcambinder.theatlantic.com —
A reader tips me to a curious line
in a McCain-Palin/RNC radio advertisement that's running on country
music stations in Virginia. The narrator: "Barack Obama says he wants to spread the wealth. His plan, raise your taxes and give it to big ...
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"Just As You Suspected" A Radio Ad On Obama
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Ambinder gets results
Ben Smith's Blog —
Yesterday, Marc Ambinder suggested that an RNC radio spot alleging that Obama would "rob" seniors had a racial edge.
Apparently, those sensitive souls at the RNC were reading. It's been recut to drop the verb.
He's also got the audio (.mp3) of an ad that says, "Just as you suspected, Barack Obama is wrong for you."
While arguments about the "race card" are currently buzzing around a bit, and will inevitably get noisier, this is pretty mild stuff, historically speaking, and the decision to recut the ad says a ...
Rhymin' and Stealin'
Hit & Run —
Atlantic political reporter Marc Ambinder furrowed his brow at the phrasing in a McCain radio ad: It sounded a lot like a racial appeal. What happened next is instructive: ...
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Obama's Health Care Ads
corner.nationalreview.com 10/24/2008 — Watching some television over the weekend, it is impossible to get away from Obama ads attacking John McCain's health care plan. It's amazing how much money and attention they are paying to the issue. But the most striking (though not surprising) ...
Latest Sign of Trouble for McCain: RNC Ads in Montana
blogs.wsj.com 10/28/2008 — Laura Meckler reports from Hershey, Pa., on the presidential race.
How bad does the electoral map look for John McCain ? Consider that the Republican National Committee begins advertising this week in Montana, a classic Republican state.
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RNC Pulls Ads for McCain in Wisconsin and Maine
blogs.wsj.com 10/16/2008 — Mary Jacoby reports on the presidential race.
The Republican National Committee pulled its television ads supporting Sen. John McCain off the air in Wisconsin and Maine, suggesting GOP strategists are doubtful about their presidential ...
Joe gives the RNC its next ad.
redstate.com 10/25/2008 — "He is NOT spreading the wealth around!"
This wasn't pretty: then again, interviews where you're being
asked to distinguish between your running mate's views and Karl
Marx's rarely are. Head's up via Ace of
Spades
The interviewer is ...
Those Prop 8 Ads
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/4/2008 — Some time early Monday Google Adsense starting running a Pro Proposition 8 ad on TPM. For those of you who aren't familiar with it, Prop 8 is a ballot initiative in California which would ban same-sex marriages. We assume it's only running in ...
McCain to Attack Obama for Public Radio Comments from 2001
blogs.abcnews.com 10/27/2008 — On September 6, 2001, then-state senator Barack Obama appeared on a public radio chat show to discuss "Slavery and the Constitution." You can listen to the whole show HERE. In that show -- WBEZ-FM's "Odyssey" -- Obama discussed the role...
Corporate finance chiefs prefer McCain: survey —
Reuters: Politics 10/30/2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chief financial officers of U.S. companies still prefer Republican presidential nominee John McCain over Democrat Barack Obama by a wide margin, but support for McCain is down from the previous quarter, according to a new survey. ...
McCain up 11 in South Carolina —
First Read 10/30/2008
From NBC's Mark MurrayA new NBC News/Princeton Survey Research Associates International poll shows McCain with an 11-point lead over Obama among likely South Carolina voters, 53%-42%.
Yet that margin is smaller is among registered voters, 50%-44%. ...
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