Ad Wars Finale: Courage and Experience vs Hope and Unity
McCain and Obama aired television ads this past weekend that emphasized themes that have been the backbone of their campaigns from the outset. Obama ...
McCain and Obama aired television ads this past weekend that emphasized themes that have been the backbone of their campaigns from the outset. Obama ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Michael Hughes | Posted 11.12.2008 | Home
Political communications consultant Mike Hughes, special to OffTheBus, deconstructs the latest campaign ads, frame by frame. McCain launched a creati...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Michael Hughes | Posted 10.30.2008 | Home
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Michael Hughes | Posted 12.03.2008 | Home