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New MoveOn ad targets Elizabeth Dole and John McCain
MoveOn is dropping a cool half a million dollars on a new TV ad in North Carolina that accuses Republican presidential candidate John McCain and Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R) of being “in the pocket of Big Oil.” The ad highlights their support for tax breaks for oil companies. Dole is facing a tough reelection bid […]
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McCain economics
Here’s Obama’s new ad hitting McCain: I’m not entirely sure I get the Iraq bit. Is the Obama campaign now trying to cast Iraq as some sort of pampered welfare recipient? I know it now has an oil surplus, but it’s not exactly like they’re sitting pretty over there.
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Exxon John
The Democratic National Committee is being mean to John McCain again:
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We campaign continues to shoot itself, and climate movement, in the foot
So as to start by saying nice things, I think this new ad from the We campaign is a vast improvement over the sitting-on-a-couch, lending-credibility-to-scumbags ads they ran earlier this year: That said, I got an email from the campaign on Friday that about made my head explode. Here’s a bit: Last week, the U.S. […]
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Obama campaign targets McCain’s support of dumping nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama released a new ad over the weekend in Nevada, targeting Republican rival John McCain’s support for dumping nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain. “Imagine trucks hauling the nation’s nuclear waste on our highways to Yucca Mountain,” the ad says. “John McCain supports opening Yucca. He’s not worried about nuclear waste in […]
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Obama clean-energy ad will air during Olympics coverage
Thought the Olympics might bring some reprieve from election season? Think again. Today Barack Obama rolled out his $5 million ad campaign that will run during Olympic coverage on NBC, focusing on a clean energy economy. “The hands that built this nation can build a new economy,” says the ad, as it shows images of […]
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Obama campaign’s attempts to get gas ads at the pump foiled
Barack Obama’s campaign wanted to bring the energy ad wars directly to the pump, but their attempts have been foiled. The campaign wanted to run an ad on the mini TV screens that appear on some gas pumps, pointing out that John McCain voted against higher fuel-economy standards and renewable energy, and that Obama is […]
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