go barack!!!! Obama’s Ads in Key States Go on Attack

[spanone]

WASHINGTON — Senator Barack Obama has started a sustained and hard-hitting advertising campaign against Senator John McCain in states that will be vital this fall, painting Mr. McCain in a series of commercials as disconnected from the economic struggles of the middle class.

Mr. Obama has begun the drive with little fanfare, often eschewing the modern campaign technique of unveiling new spots for the news media before they run in an effort to win added (free) attention. Mr. Obama, whose candidacy has been built in part on a promise to transcend traditional politics, is running the negative commercials on local stations even as he runs generally positive spots nationally, during prime-time coverage of the Olympics.

The negative spots reflect the sharper tone Mr. Obama has struck in recent days on the stump as he heads into his party’s nominating convention in Denver next week, and seem to address the anxiety among some Democrats that Mr. Obama has not answered a volley of attacks by Mr. McCain with enough force.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/us/politics/20ads.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
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[HughMoran]

1. I just saw one of the ads before clicking here

It has McCain droning on about how the economy is generally good, then real people talk about the wasted money in Iraq, how they can't find a job (one is an Iraq veteran) and more general comments about how the middle class is dissapearing. It's a good hard-hitting ad IMO.

[spanone]

2. great, haven't seen them yet...time to go on the offensive imho

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[Mojambo]

3. It's past time to go on the attack.

Let em have it!

[HughMoran]

4. Kick that hypocrite McSleazebag's ass

I'm enjoying the strike-back.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

5. It is much smarter for Barack

to focus his negative ads on the tightest states while maintaining a "positive and uplifting" national focus. Rifle shots are more efficient than shotgun blasts in a scenario such as this. Axelrod and company, not to mention the candidate himself, are poker players and good poker players know when to apply the pressure to their opponents. They know what they are doing.

[RB TexLa]

6. That's good but we need some 527's to really go on the attack

Make McCain think Bush and Rove were nice in 2000.

[Median Democrat]

7. The Unfairness - McCain Plays A Negative Ad A Few Times Locally

And Fox gives it hours of free airplay on Hannity and Combs. Thus, despite Obama's prodigious fundraising, that only helps Obama stay in the game, rather than getting completely smoked. The difference will need to be the ground game to overcome Big Media's free air play of McCain's ads.