As one of our veterans says in the ad, "I went to Iraq for my country. Bob Schaffer went to Iraq for a big oil company."
Randall Balmer | Posted 08.14.2008 | Politics
In subtle and not-so-subtle ways, Republicans are seeking to portray the presumptive Democratic nominee as the Antichrist foretold in the Book of Revelation.
Josh Dorner | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics
A hard negative ad seems ill-suited to the unifying spirit of the Olympics. Obama's ad is likely to comport well with Americans swollen with pride, while McCain's stands out with its harsh tone.
Paula Poundstone | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics
There are only so many hours in a day. All of that time and energy put into finding fault in one's opponent siphons off minutes of quiet reflection about oneself.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 07.31.2008 | Media
McCain was a POW, and he showed extraordinary courage and perseverance, and was a hero at that time. The way he has run his campaign at this time is not heroic -- it is downright despicable.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics
Responding to a harsh personal attack from John McCain, Barack Obama released a television ad late Wednesday evening accusing the the Arizona Republic...
Ryan J. Davis | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics
John McCain is hedging his bid for the presidency on the idea that Americans want a president who inspires all the world to burn American flags.
Daniel Nichanian | Posted 07.07.2008 | Home
It is remarkable that the Republican Party ad praises McCain for pushing the party to recognize global warming. McCain is depicted as a realist
Jake Goldman | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
Obama: [holding hands with a Rabbi while lighting a menorah and wearing a shirt that says "Won't Jew vote for me?"] I am a real mensch. And I'm not Muslim.
Steve Cone | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
In memory of its creator, I think it is high time we understand that the 1964 Daisy ad was not about being negative but rather truthful.
Huff TV | Posted 06.18.2008 | Media
Rachel Sklar appeared on The O'Reilly Factor Tuesday night to discuss videos impacting campaign coverage, including the latest MoveOn.org ad.
Dan Treul | Posted 06.12.2008 | Home
McCain has been managing to lose a race against no one in the critical general election state, despite spending more than $500,000 per week since the end of May on TV ads there.
Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics
McCain's speech the other night was brilliant, frightening and 100% Nixon. But successful Nixon. How do you beat a Nixon? Be like Kennedy
Bella DePaulo | Posted 05.24.2008 | Media
The ad funded by "Women Count" counts every woman -- as long as she is married. I wonder, are single women also invisible to Hillary?
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...
Brian Wolff | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
Today, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee filed a FEC complaint against the swift-boat group Freedom's Watch and the NRCC for illegally coordinating their political attack ads.
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 ...
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 ...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics
Sen. Clinton has two new ads out on the eve of primaries in Texas and Ohio. In the first, Clinton hits Obama on his inactivity while serving as chair...
Huffington Post | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics
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Wall Street Journal | Aaron Rutkoff | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics
With five days left before Super Tuesday, presidential campaign ads have gone national -- yet some candidates are on the airwaves in more of the count...
Associated Press | Mike Glover | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics
Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton will make her closing argument to Iowa voters Wednesday evening during a televised message in which she tells them to ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.26.2007 | Politics
Days after relating how Jesus gave him solace in the form of a cross scratched in the dirt while he was the Prisoner of Azkaban, John McCain is back o...
Edward Ugel | Posted 12.19.2007 | Politics
Imagine if someone who touts themselves as a man of religion wasn't so willing to alienate others just to get in bed with the evangelical crowd.
Last night, John McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis...
Update: Keith Olbermann had Rachel Maddow on "Countdown" Tuesday night to celebrate...
In a candid interview via satellite from China, Olympic...
"How honest are we if we tell the truth most of the time &...
I must admit that listening to McCain answer Pastor Rick Warren's questions...
Obama's been to Hawaii. We're moving...
UPDATE: A day after Roseanne's blogs from below...
RENO, Nev. — So much for hugging in church. A day after Barack Obama and John McCain exchanged...
Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps. With all the play his name gets right now,...
NEW YORK — The suspense didn't quite compare to the identity of "Deep Throat,"...
As much as I dreaded turning 30, believe it or not I'm actually starting to...
Turning conventional neuroscience on its head, new research suggests the...
BURKE, N.Y. -- Everywhere that Janet and Ken Tacy...
Jon Soltz | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics