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Obama Takes Up Tax Fight in New TV Ad
News — Obama Takes Up Tax Fight in New TV Ad After John McCain has hit him on the issue of taxes in numerous television ads of late, Barack Obama is fighting back. Obama's latest ad, released today, focuses solely on the issue of taxes, claiming that Obama's tax plan would lessen middle class taxes by three times more than McCain's. McCain has repeatedly blasted Obama on middle class taxes, accusing Obama of voting to raise taxes on individuals making $42,000. McCain's campaign has cited Obama's vote for a budget resolution that, according to FactCheck.org, would have raised taxes on individuals making as little as $41,500 by ...

McCain, Obama Ads Trade Blows On Taxes
TPM Election Central — It's instructive to compare the two ads that the campaigns unleashed today attacking each other on taxes. McCain is up with a new radio spot that keeps up the attack line that Obama is a "celebrity" who would hike your taxes, to boot. "Celebrities like to spend their millions," McCain's ad says. "Barack Obama is no different. Only it's your money he wants to spend." It's unclear where the ad is running. Meanwhile, Barack Obama is up with a new spot attacking John McCain on taxes: "Can we really afford more of the same?" the ad asks. It runs through the familiar ...

Dueling Tax Ads
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — Obama's ad is on tv, McCain's is on radio. Watch/listen to them and tell me who you think gets the better of the duel:...

John McCain’s Tax Plan
Oliver Willis — Mavericky.

McCain, Obama Tax War Sparked With New Ads (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — Early on Wednesday morning, both Barack Obama and John McCain released ads focused on taxes. If the tone of both spots proved predictable, the amount of money being pushed into each campaign's ad was not. Though McCain has outspent Obama on paid media in battleground states so far this month, Obama's new television ad will start getting pumped into several key states today -- specifically, Colorado, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Virginia. By contrast, McCain's new piece is a radio ad, and his campaign has declined to reveal exactly how hard or in what parts of the country it ...

Dueling Over The Economy
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — This radio attack ad by McCain is brutal but effective: I'm less impressed by Obama's new ad: ...

"Three Times"
Hotline On Call Part Deux — New 30-second Barack Obama spot out today contrasts the Dem's tax plan with that of his GOP rival. The ad, which will run in CO, MI, MO, NH, OH, PA, WI and VA, asserts that John McCain will give tax breaks to corporations -- especially Big Oil -- while Obama will cut taxes for the middle class.