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TPM Election Central: Another GOP Congressional Incumbent Links Himself To Obama In New Ad
Ben Smith's Blog: Shays=Obama+McCain?
Daily Kos: CT-04: Chris Shays hearts Obama
DownWithTyranny!: Chris Shays Tries Glomming On To Obama
Crooks and Liars: Let’s Kick Christopher Shays “Off The Fence” Already
Another GOP Congressional Incumbent Links Himself To Obama In New Ad
TPM Election Central —
Okay, we now have another GOP Congressional incumbent linking himself positively to Barack Obama: Rep. Chris Shays of Connecticut, who has a new ad that declares flatly that he possesses "the hopefulness of Obama."...
By our count, this makes Shays, who's locked in a tough re-election fight against Dem Jim Himes, the second serious GOP down-ticketer to link himself positively with the Illinois Senator. GOP Senator Gordon Smith, who's also facing a bruising re-election battle, has run two ads hailing Obama.
The Shays campaign declined to comment on the ad, which was forwarded to us by a ...
Shays=Obama+McCain?
Ben Smith's Blog —
The last Republican congressman in New England, Chris Shays, has an unusual ad up that opens with an image of the Democratic nominee.
Shays, it says, combines the "hopefulness" of Obama and the "straight talk" of McCain.
(via TPM)
CT-04: Chris Shays hearts Obama
Daily Kos —
In this day and age, it can be awful hard defending your allegiance to today's Republican Party. For Rep. Chris Shays, it proved so difficult that he's now masquerading as some Obamaesque Democratic/Republican hybrid. Witness: That's right, lifelong Republican Chris Shays is leading his ads with an image of the Democratic presidential nominee. Shays is a co-chair of McCain's campaign, of course. And as for his apparent claims to transcend partisanship and other cool stuff like that...well, the campaign of Orange to Blue candidate Jim Himes ...
Chris Shays Tries Glomming On To Obama
DownWithTyranny! —
Few of the rubber stamp Republican senators are as likely to be defeated in November as Oregon's Gordon Smith, someone who just spent 5 years voting for every single item on the Bush-Cheney agenda followed by 6 months of trying to convince Oregon voters that he's a "moderate," an "independent voice," and-- unbelievably-- kinda almost a Democrat. Back in June he was laughed off the air with a short lived ad that attempted to cash in on Barack Obama's huge popularity in his state. There's no Republican in the House who has tried this exact same tactic more forcefully than Chris Shays of Connecticut. Shays is the last ...
Let’s Kick Christopher Shays “Off The Fence” Already
Crooks and Liars —
Few of the rubber stamp Republican senators are as likely to be defeated in November as Oregon’s Gordon Smith, someone who just spent 5 years voting for every single item on the Bush-Cheney agenda followed by 6 months of trying to convince Oregon voters that he’s a “moderate,” an “independent voice,” and– unbelievably– kinda almost a Democrat. Back in June he was laughed off the air with a short lived ad that attempted to cash in on Barack Obama’s huge popularity in his state.
There’s no Republican in the House who has tried this exact same tactic more forcefully than ...
