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Ad Wars Finale: Courage and Experience vs Hope and Unity

Michael Hughes | Posted 12.03.2008 | Home


Michael Hughes

McCain and Obama aired television ads this past weekend that emphasized themes that have been the backbone of their campaigns from the outset. Obama ...

Sam Stein

Closing McCain Ad Returns To His Biography

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics


The McCain campaign put out on Friday what could be the last television ad it airs this cycle -- a largely biographical spot that includes footage of ...

Sam Stein

New McCain Ad: Obama Once Praised Me!

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics


Emptying out the opposition-research closet, the McCain campaign is up with a new ad featuring one Sen. Barack Obama praising John McCain's approach t...

Sam Stein

McCain Ad: Obama All Style, No Substance, On Economy

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics


Barack Obama is out with his own attack ad Wednesday morning. Watch it here. The McCain campaign released an ad Wednesday morning claiming that Bara...

Sam Stein

McCain Ad: Obama Wants Higher Taxes For Workin' Joes

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics


Expanding on his closing argument, John McCain put out an ad on Tuesday morning that accuses Barack Obama of pushing redistributive tax policies and w...

Sam Stein

McCain-The-Gambler Ad To Hit Swing States

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics


The clean-election group Campaign Money Watch announced just now that a new ad going after McCain for his ties to the gambling industry, will be airin...

Sam Stein

McCain Ad Uses Biden's Words Against Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics


The McCain campaign's newest television advertisement, released Friday morning, goes straight after Barack Obama's readiness to handle an internationa...

Sam Stein

John McCain's Prudent And Bizarre Budget Moves

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics


With the presidential campaign approaching its long-awaited conclusion, the McCain campaign has begun making a series of budgetary decisions designed ...

Sam Stein

New McCain Ad: We Are All Joe The Plumber

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics


John McCain is going all in on the Joe-the-plumber meme with a television ad this morning that showcases other small business owners -- all claiming t...

Sam Stein

McCain Debate Ad Tries To Break From Bush

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics


John McCain put out a one-minute ad Thursday morning that is noteworthy on a number of fronts: the Senator speaks directly into the camera, he admonis...

Sam Stein

New Ad: Voters Can't Believe McCain's Health Care Policy Extremes

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics


The progressive group Health Care for America Now is up with a new spot whacking John McCain for proposing a health care policy that voters can't even...

Ad Wars: McCain ACORN Assault - Obama Must Fill In The Blanks

Michael Hughes | Posted 11.12.2008 | Home


Michael Hughes

Political communications consultant Mike Hughes, special to OffTheBus, deconstructs the latest campaign ads, frame by frame. McCain launched a creati...

Sam Stein

McCain Releases Incredibly Disjointed Ayers Attack Ad

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics


For the fifth straight day, McCain's campaign is going after Barack Obama for his association with Bill Ayers. Only this time the attack comes in the ...

Sam Stein

McCain Ad Goes Back To The Well: Obama A Liberal Liar

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics


John McCain is out with a post-debate ad that, perhaps in a sign of how the affair went, doesn't even mention last night's affair. Titled "Folks," t...

Sam Stein

McCain Ad, Assaults Bring Campaign To New Depths

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics


Thirty days until the election and the presidential campaign is reaching new depths. On Monday, the McCain campaign put out a television ad that is n...

Seth Colter Walls

McCain Ad: Biden Thinks Mexicans Are "Dysfunctional"

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 11.01.2008 | Politics


John McCain's effort to win the Hispanic vote continued Wednesday with a new Spanish-language TV ad his campaign says will air in Colorado, Nevada and...

Sam Stein

McCain Now Above Partisanship In New Bailout Ad

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.01.2008 | Politics


A day after the RNC and John McCain himself criticized Barack Obama both for supporting a bailout package for Wall Street and contributing to its defe...

Sam Stein

McCain Ad Distorts Obama, Day After Decrying Gotcha Journalism

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics


John McCain is out with a new ad that accuses Barack Obama of making the same claim - "the fundamentals of the economy are strong" - that McCain himse...

Latest McCain And Obama Ads Play On Fear In Time Of Crisis: Out Of Touch Versus Unprepared

Michael Hughes | Posted 10.30.2008 | Home


Michael Hughes

In their new ads, Obama portrays McCain as clueless on the troubled economy, while McCain attempts to scare voters and convince them Obama cannot be trusted on national security.

Sam Stein

McCain Ad: Obama Has Been MIA On The Economy

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics


Repeating a line of attack developed over the weekend, the McCain campaign released an ad Tuesday morning accusing Barack Obama of being missing in ac...

Sam Stein

McCain Plays Rezko Card In New Ad

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics


John McCain's campaign is out with a new ad Monday morning -- like every morning -- raising some of the ethically compromised characters from Barack O...

Sam Stein

McCain Ad Blames Obama For Loss Of Michigan Jobs

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics


In another sign of how John McCain is trying to turn the political world on its head (in which he is a populist and the Democrats have been setting th...

Sam Stein

McCain Follows Obama With Direct Economic Ad (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics


Hours after the Obama campaign released an economic-themed television ad with the Senator speaking directly into the camera, the McCain campaign put o...

Sam Stein

McCain On 'Black Monday': Fundamentals Of Our Economy Are Still Strong

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics


John McCain may want to refine his economic message a bit more during this potentially disastrous week for the financial sector. On the campaign trai...

Sam Stein

McCain Ad: Only We Can Fix The Economy

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics


How dramatically the tone of the presidential campaign has shifted in just a few days. Last week, it was John McCain who was hitting Barack Obama on c...