WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The 2008 presidential race, which has already drawn a record number of dollars and voters, is poised to shatter anothe...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
Well, let's start with the good. From a style standpoint, this latest ad from John McCain is a quantum leap ahead of his more recent ads. And I know...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
Progressive linguist and author George Lakoff would likely grin at the sight of the latest advertisement for John McCain, since it makes precisely the...
William Bradley | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics
Today, McCain suddenly changed his ads to emphasize distance from Bush and positions him as an environmental champion. Apparently, someone informed him that his maverick image was fast fading.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics
Ugh. The first seven second of John McCain's new campaign ad, "Global," are a nightmare. Blaring techno of the idiot variety, weaving in car horns.....
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
If you're like most people, you're likely pretty skeptical about whether Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe has really contributed much to the promotion of a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.08.2008 | Politics
"Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war," says John McCain at the top of his latest spot "Safe," right before he spends the next...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
In what Wonkette calls "the most tragically awkward video in the history of YouTube," a dazed McCain campaign manager Rick Davis stares goggle-eyed at...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics
John McCain's new ad takes a bold look into the future of America, where stentorian voice-over narrators grimly announce the major accomplishments of ...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics
The Indiana and North Carolina primaries are tomorrow, and the Democrats are running new ads right up the wire. The latest batch have come in just to...
Paul Loeb | Posted 05.04.2008 | Home
Continuing to parrot every possible Republican sound bite, Hillary's PR people have just sent out a mailer accusing Obama of being insufficiently supportive of gun rights.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics
Here at Campaign AdWatch, we see an awful lot of politically themed ads. And most of them are just awful, which stands to reason, since the people wh...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics
The latest advertisement from the Clinton campaign is the shrewdest and most fortuitously-timed piece of campaign video we've seen in a while. Check ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics
Twice in John McCain's new advertisement touting his so-called health care "plan," McCain mentions that the key issue is not "the quality of healthcar...
The Huffington Post | Dipayan Gupta | Posted 04.22.2008 | Media
CNN's Jessica Yellin's report on Lou Dobbs' show last night on the back-stabbing half truths of political ad campaigns was apparently a revelation for...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics
Today's polling indicated a slight upward trend for Senator Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania, with most numbers tacking above the margin for error. St...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
On the last episode of Amargura Y Lagrimas, the searing, endless, telenovela of the Democratic primary, Hillary Clinton had gathered a handful of Penn...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics
Mike Gravel may not have ended up contributing too much to the Democratic primaries, but if there was one achievement where Gravel led all comers by a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics
John McCain's new ad is about Heroes, and Memories, and Teachers, and more Memories. Misty, water-colored, memories of a time when McCain was a wee l...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics
The actor playing one of the sleeping children in Sen. Clinton's famous "3 AM" commercial has cut another campaign ad -- this one for Sen. Obama, who ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics
What exactly is this video? The opening credits for the new season of Dr. Who? The new Moby video? No, my friends, 'tis the latest advertisement fr...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.09.2008 | Politics
Hey, have you heard? The little girl from the famous "3am phone call" ad is actually a grown-up supporter of Barack Obama! Which is, I guess, a TOTA...
The New Argument | Evan Miller | Posted 03.08.2008 | Politics
From the New Argument: Casey Knowles, a High School Senior in Washington state, recently discovered she was one of the sleeping children in Clinton's...
America Blog | John Ararvosis | Posted 03.04.2008 | Politics
Via America Blog: I went and got the original footage from the Clinton ad, and then compared it to 3 different video clips of the same debate from 3 ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics
This latest parody of that silly "3AM And There's A Phone Ringing" commercial comes from Public Service Administration, the same folks who brought you...
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY! In honor of the great American holiday, Huffington Post has pulled together...
US News and World Report printed a short piece about GOP fears that the...
Until last month, Jason Burnett was a high-ranking political appointee at...
Tracie Egan, and Moe Tkacik, two writers from Jezebel.com were invited to appear on my show, Thinking...
Florida's bachelor Governor Charlie Crist is getting married, and to a woman, too. That's how badly...
On the Fourth Of July Arianna appeared on CNN's Situation Room...
Even with the GOP convention nearly two months away, some in the Republican...
Jenny McCarthy struts her stuff in a sexy black swimsuit...
"The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday - but never jam to-day." "It MUST come sometimes to...
PENSACOLA, Fla. — Oil companies once viewed drilling in the deep waters off...
Reuters | Andy Sullivan and Paul Thomasch | Posted 07.02.2008 | Media