McCain Campaign Ad Spending Now Almost 100% Negative

Talking Points Memo:

The McCain campaign has now shifted virtually 100 percent of his national ad spending into negative ads attacking Obama, a detailed breakdown of his ad buys reveals.

By contrast, the Obama campaign is devoting less than half of his spending on ads attacking McCain. More than half of its spending is going to a spot that doesn't once mention his foe.

I asked Evan Tracey -- who tracks national ad spending for the Campaign Media Analysis Group -- to detail the amounts each campaign is spending on specific different spots. The idea was to gauge the precise degree of the McCain campaign's shift into negative mode amid his slide in the polls, and determine whether the Obama camp was following suit.

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Comments

[i-Own 1-House]

D E S P E R A T E.........

Im just sayin, if they want to play with fire, they better expect to get burned

If they play Rev. Wright and Rezko , Obama camp has to hit him back with the Keating 5 and relate it to what is going now on wallstreet and McCain's stance on deregulation.

When McSame starts to attack Obama's character,
Then get some outside group to make an AD with the "C" word that McSame called his wife. It's gonna get dirty frome here on out. Remember what happened to Kerry, that can't happen again this time. McCain needs to get pounded. Politics is Politics and dirt is dirt and Mccain is t McSame.

[likeicare]

Can you say, desperate?

[newshawk14]

When you yourself are a zero, where else are you going to go, but negative? McCain / Palin
are a bad joke being perpetrated on America.

[edwarvir]

I don't understand the people why in world do they
come out to hear him lie. Almost anytime he opens his
mouth lately he's lieing. He's been hang around Sarah to much
You betch cha Golleeeeee­eeeeeeeeee­e

[atila]

That's why we need to keep DONATING,Obama campaign is going to need it because these bas.tards are going ti try everything­...

[edwarvir]

atila you are right. I am going to e-mail all my
friend and family to donate the time is now. Not Nov 5th 2008

[pupbayer]

Uh, yeah as are O's. So? It's getting close to the election. It's all either side seems to know how to do. It's so much easier than showcasing yourself, don't you think?

[independent32955]

ah, have you SEEN any of the Barack Obama commercials? They are all basically him sitting there talking through his ideas...no­w I get that if you're anti-Obama that those ads might SEEM negative, but to the rest of us, there's only one person pandering in hate and thankfully that guy is going to lose.

[CintiBlue]

All you posters know this wouldn't have happened If Johnnie had gotten his joint town hall meetings. Lost opportunities.

Obama/Biden 2008/2012

[Tulka2]

All McCain can hope to do is depress the vote. If he can make young people again contemptuous of the political process as in "all politicians are crooks", and he knows the one-note evangelicals will turn out for him, then he figures he has a chance. I say "he", but there's little doubt he has sold his soul to his Cheney/Rovian overlords and they are in charge.

[UCSD101]

He may get some of the evangelicals, especially the ones that Focus On The Family brings to him. But as far as the younger voters - they are smart - think McCain is old and out of date - sounds corny and can't stand Sarah.

From what I see they the "younger" are more likely to vote for the Obama-Biden ticket..

OBAMA/BIDEN 2008/2012

[mojojanglesjoe]

John McCain promised "change" from the politics going on in Washington, but is practicing the same mess politicians in DC have been playing for years. We're tired of hearing negative ads, give us subtance.

[the964kid]

What is there that is positive that McCain could say about himself or Palin that is not an outright lie??

[djelimon]

They have nothing else, but it's all so easily disproved that they just give Obama another opportunity to call him a liar. Softens the blow quite a bit.

[Freakpower]

When no one is buying what your selling (nothing), You Fight!

The history of McCain's life, except for those five years he wasn't allowed to fight!

[bigdaddyvike]

no country for old men.

[shubes61]

good heavens, i'm SOOO tired of all this... can we just vote now and save ourselves another month of this bullcrap?

[Petey131]

McCain has nothing to offer America. This is why since the beginning all his ads have been negative attacks.

LATINOS FOR OBAMA-BIDEN 2008!