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Obama’s Ads in Key States Go on Attack
nytimes.com - 8/20/2008
Obama’s Ads in Key States Go on Attack
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Barack Obama has started a hard-hitting ad campaign against John McCain in vital states, painting Mr. McCain as disconnected from middle-class struggles. >

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The Early Word: Veep in Waiting
The Caucus — ... during a visit to an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico near New Orleans. Senator Obama has been sharpening his message over the last few days, taking on his Republican rival not only in speeches but also increasingly in the television advertising his campaign is producing. The Times’s Jim Rutenberg writes that in a series of ads, Mr. Obama is trying to portray his opponent as “disconnected from the economic struggles of the middle class”: The negative spots reflect the sharper tone Mr. Obama has struck in recent days on the stump as he heads into his party’s ...

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News — ... Lieberman as VP Pick - Jane Hamsher, Huffington Post [image] FRC on Pro-Choice Pick - Matt Lewis, Townhall.com [image] Obama's Infanticide Support In MSM - E. Morrissey, Hot Air [image] We're Getting Closer - Seth Liebsohn, The Corner [image] Finally! Maddow Gets Show - kos, Daily Kos OTHER NEWS SOURCES: Obama and McCain in a Statistical Tie - Los Angeles Times Candidates' Abortion Views Not So Simple - Washington Post Obama's Ads in Key States Go on Attack - New York Times Governments' ...

McSame-- Policies, Politics, Corruption
DownWithTyranny! — ... And then I'll run across and ad like this one that's running in Georgia today and I think... maybe he does know what's he's doing after all; maybe he'll pull it off and actually be a transformational leader. I want to believe; I want to have hope. I want to laugh that he was just joking about Kaine and Biden and, especially, Bayh. I want to believe he's not going to be Dukakis and Kerry but that he'll fight back as smart and hard and ...

Nicholas Stephanopoulos: Black Magic
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — The conventional wisdom says there are two kinds of campaign commercials: positive ads, which elaborate on a candidate's own strengths, and negative ads, which shine a spotlight on an opponent's weaknesses. Running positive ads is supposedly evidence of political virtue (or a comfortable lead in the polls), while a candidate who broadcasts negative ads is desperate and nasty and has descended into the political gutter. But this distinction between positive and negative ads obscures more than it illuminates. An ad pointing out that, say, one's opponent opposes ...

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More on Sen. Barack Obama's new tone : The New York Times says Obama "has started a sustained and hard-hitting advertising campaign against Senator John McCain in states that will be vital this fall, painting Mr. McCain in a series of commercials as disconnected from the economic struggles of the middle class." "Obama has begun the drive with little fanfare, often eschewing the modern ...
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Source: [b]New York Times[/b] WASHINGTON — Senator Barack Obama has started a sustained and hard-hitting advertising campaign against Senator John McCain in states that will be vital this fall, painting Mr. McCain in a series of commercials as disconnected from the economic struggles of the middle ...