Barack Obama Up With His First General Election TV Ad
Posted by: Flap in Barack Obama, President 2008BarackObama’s first general election televison ad: “Country I Love”
In Team Obama’s first television ad, Barack Obama is portrayed as “one of us” – a regular guy with family from Kansas. Note the references to family values, and welfare reform.
This is why both Mike Huckabee and Newt Gingrich have warned the GOP and John McCain to not demonize Obama but to draw him out on his liberal and wrong position on the issues.
This ad will air in Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Virginia, per the campaign – all key battleground states. Marc Ambinder estimates the cost to be close to $3 million per week in these 18 states.
Team McCain has its work cut out for itself.
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June 19th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
McCain does have an uphill task. Obama refusing public financing means that he can put out as many ads as he wants, in all the swing states. Obama can keep firing ads at Georgia and North Carolina while McCain won’t have the money to respond. Or, if does respond, then he won’t be able to attack in PA and Ohio. You think McCain can make anything out of the fact that Obama reneged on his promise to accept public funds?
June 19th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Nope.
Nobody is interested whether he accepts public money or not. In fact, most folks like the private money to be spent instead of their tax dollars (although they say it isn’t) for campaigns.
McCain will just have to do more with less. But, it will be uphill.
June 21st, 2008 at 6:42 am
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