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SEIU Ad Attacks McCain on Economy

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/09/14/seiu-ad-attacks-mccain-on-economy/

Kris Maher reports on the presidential campaign.

It’s the economy…

That’s what unions are trying to hammer home as they work to reel in votes from working-class voters
for Sen. Barack Obama, who polls better on economic issues than Sen. John McCain.

On Sunday, the Service Employees International Union unveiled an ad featuring a white, working-class family struggling to get by after the husband named Henry lost his job eight months ago. The 30-second ad,
which cost $2.1 million, will air in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Mexico, Wisconsin and Iowa.

“We have three kids, I like to send them to school looking nice, you know,” says an unnamed woman in the ad.
“I work two shifts usually, and we’re still behind.”

The ad attacks McCain, quoting him as having said that he still needs “to be educated” about economics and that he said the country is better off today than it was eight years ago. And it rolls a clip of Obama saying that his proposed tax cut would benefit the middle class three times more than McCain’s plan.

In announcing the ad, Anna Burger, secretary-treasurer of SEIU, said she thought the McCain campaign has tried to distract voters from substantive issues lately and that the ad was an attempt to redirect voters’ attention.

“While other candidates might want to talk about lipstick and pigs, we want to talk about economic issues, jobs, healthcare,” she said. The campaign ad is SEIU’s second major one this year, following a $1.5 million ad buy in April in Ohio.

The ad’s melancholy tone harks back to the famous Harry and Louise ad of 1993, in which a husband and wife worry over government health-care proposals, and which is credited with helping to sink Bill Clinton’s health-care plan. The actors from that ad reappeared in a new commercial in August, this time backed by and promoting health-care reform.

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Comment beneath this article: :P

"Having a Republican nominee who is admittedly ignorant on the topic of the economy is an embarassment to our party.
We should’ve gone with Mitt when we had the chance… So sad, but I think Obama is going to take this one, especially
now that McCain’s mud-slinging campaign style is starting to backfire."
Comment by Diehard Republican - September 14, 2008 at 4:16 pm