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New Obama Olympic Ad Promotes His Economic Plan
The Page by Mark Halperin —
The nationwide spot– “Three Bedroom Ranch”– begins Monday on broadcast and cable TV, and will run during the Olympics.
Click above to watch, and read script here.
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New Obama Ad: 'Three Bedroom Ranch'
News —
New Obama Ad: 'Three Bedroom Ranch' Barack Obama's campaign released a new ad focused on the economy that will air during coverage of the Olympics.
Obama: 'Three bedroom ranch'
Ben Smith's Blog —
Another Obama ad touts Democratic policy standbys, and responds only in passing to McCain's competing Olympic charge that (despite plans to the contrary) Obama will raise taxes.
Obama Set to Air Second Olympic Ad
44 —
Ad Watch Obama Set to Air Second Olympic Ad By Jonathan Weisman The Ad: Barack Obama's campaign will release a new, feel-good economic advertisement this afternoon extolling the senator from Illinois's economic plan and slated to begin a nationwide run on Monday during the Olympics. After two negative attack ads on John McCain, the latest ad is all about Obama, with light music and imagery of a nation at work. "It begins with a plan, a plan to build, a plan to put hard-working Americans first," the narrator begins, before talking up plans to end tax breaks for companies that send jobs overseas, helping businesses create jobs in the United States, ...
Obama Ad: Three-Bedroom Ranch
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com —
The Obama campaign will begin airing a new TV ad Monday on network and cable in all 50 states. The ad is aimed at middle class voters, with a house being built in the background as a narrator speaks....
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Obama's New Olympic Ad
The Atlantic Politics Channel —
Positive, cheery. AND, unlike the first commercial Obama ran during Olympic coverage, the fact that it is, indeed, an Obama commercial is apparent from the beginning, and not 20 seconds in...
Obama's New Olympics Ad Takes Middle Class Focus
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
The Obama campaign unveiled a new TV ad Thursday that will run during the Olympics.
The spot, titled "Three Bedroom Ranch," pushes a positive economic message much like the Olympic buy the Obama camp has been running up to this point. This one, unlike the last, puts emphasis on reorganizing tax-policy priorities (lowering middle class taxes, ending tax breaks for corporations taking jobs oversees) as opposed to energy.
Here is the script: "It begins with a plan, a plan to build a plan to put hardworking Americans first. Barack Obama. He will put the middle class ahead of ...
Hullabaloo — Happy Anniversary by dday Following on Digby's post about seniors being the lagging demographic for Obama in this election (and really the only one - the myths of his struggles with Hispanics, women and the white working class have all been debunked for the most part), Democrats are marking the 73rd anniversary of one of the most successful government programs ever created - one that has lifted the elderly out of poverty to a historic degree - and one that John McCain and the conservative movement want to destroy. The DNC put together a Web video featuring Franklin Roosevelt's grandson, and it's pretty ...
Two competing Olympic strategies
Political Animal —
Both presidential campaigns have invested pretty heavily in television ads for the Olympics, with Obama reportedly spending $5 million, and McCain $6 million. Given reports on high ratings for this year’s games, it’s probably money well spent — a lot of folks will see the commercials.
But it strikes me as interesting how the competing campaigns are going about communicating with this particular audience. Here’s the new Obama campaign spot, the second to run during the Olympics.
“It begins with a plan,” the voice-over says, ...
"A Plan to Put Hard-Working Americans First"
The Corner on National Review Online —
Thursday, August 14, 2008 [image] "A Plan to Put Hard-Working Americans First" [ Rich Lowry ] Here's Obama's latest ad. It's another good one, and continues the emphasis on the middle class, promising to put "the middle class ahead of corporate interests." As Ramesh noted by way of this James Pethokoukis post, Obama is steadily focusing his tax increases more and more on "the rich." That sets up a debate that the Obama campaign can frame as between raising taxes on the rich and cutting them on the middle class on the one hand, and basically just cutting them on the rich on the other. This is a box the McCain people should ...
Obamas Latest Ad
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
I fear his campaign is adrift, having lost the fire of his insurgency against the Bush years. But I agree with Rich Lowry that this ad is an effective and clear appeal to the middle class. He needs to emphasize more that his tax hikes will only hurt those at the upper end of the income scale and that his tax cuts are for the middle class. This is a Clintonian pitch (Bill, that is). It isn't enough, but it can't hurt: ...
Two competing Olympic strategies
Crooks and Liars —
Both presidential campaigns have invested pretty heavily in television ads for the Olympics, with Obama reportedly spending $5 million, and McCain $6 million. Given reports on high ratings for this year’s games, it’s probably money well spent — a lot of folks will see the commercials.
But it strikes me as interesting how the competing campaigns are going about communicating with this particular audience. Here’s the new Obama campaign spot, the second to run during the Olympics. ...
Daily Digest: You Never Forget Your First (2 Million)
techPresident —
The Candidates on the Web
MyBO NOOO! Part 2: Yesterday, we accidentally jumped the gun on Jonathan Tilove's story on controversial changes in Barack Obama's social networking system, and for that we apologize. Tilove writes an excellent article that captures the frustration MyBO users are having with the switch from a points system for taking various actions on behalf of the Obama campaign that allowed some of them to really stand out to a more generic "activity tracker” that significantly flattens the standing among activists. MyBO user Lisa ...
New Ads: 1, 2, "Punch"
The Caucus —
Between the two campaigns, three new ads have debuted over the past two days, with one from each on taxes (both focusing on Senator Barack Obama’s proposals). Starting Monday, “Three Bedroom Ranch” will run nationwide on cable and during the Olympics. It offers his “economic blueprint,” almost literally, in outlining his plan for the middle class as a house is being constructed. “It begins with a plan. A plan to build. A plan to put hard working Americans first,” says an announcer, before text and images on the screen address his goals of offering working families a $1,000 tax cut and investing in alternative energy. Senator John McCain’s campaign ...
