Red States Targeted For Obama's Closing Ads

Ahead in the polls and confident about his ground game, Barack Obama is making a final push with two new TV ads that encapsulate his campaign's double-edged strategy of criticizing John McCain while also trying to inspire supporters. The ad...

Obama Ad Blitz Continues Ahead Of Prime-Time Appearance

Barack Obama is set to air a 30-minute infomercial/campaign ad on network TV at 8 p.m. tonight. But that does not mean his campaign is letting up on its more traditional 30-second spots. Obama has released several new ads in...

Hispanic Vote Targeted In Obama's Final Push

Barack Obama is capping off what his campaign claims is "the most aggressive Spanish-language media effort in presidential campaign history" with a series of new TV and radio ads released Monday. In addition, Obama announced that, along with his purchase...

Obama's Ads In The Home Stretch Both Comfort And Attack

Barack Obama is set to deliver a "closing argument" speech in the battleground state of Ohio today, but viewers are already getting a preview of the candidates' final pitch through a pair of TV ads released within the last 48...

Obama Targets Hispanics With Three More Ads

When Barack Obama captured the Democratic nomination early this summer, many Democratic insiders feared he would not be able to win over Hispanic voters, who overwhelmingly favored his opponent, Hillary Rodham Clinton, in the primaries. Less than two weeks out...

Obama Addresses Ayers On Radio

After several weeks of intense criticism from the right over his relationship with former 1960's radical William Ayers, Barack Obama is addressing the topic head-on in an ad. A new radio spot (subscription) running in key states echoes a TV...

Obama's Economic Onslaught

In a strictly political sense, the failing economy has been a blessing to Barack Obama's candidacy. And the Illinois senator is capitalizing on the fiscal crisis in several TV ads running in battleground states. In "Floridians Hurting" (subscription), Obama seeks...

Obama Disparages McCain's New Mortgage Proposal

In perhaps the most newsworthy moment of Tuesday night's debate between John McCain and Barack Obama, the Arizona senator announced a new $300 billion proposal to let homeowners refinance their mortgages with assistance from the government. The plan is getting...

Debate Day Gets An Early -- And Angry -- Start

The bitter back-and-forth between Barack Obama and John McCain continued this morning as each candidate released a TV ad accusing the other of dishonest attacks, setting a contentious tone for tonight's presidential debate in Nashville, Tenn. Obama's spot, "The Subject"...

McCain's Ads: From Uniting To Attacking In Record Time

Judging from the McCain campaign's TV advertising, it took them only about 30 minutes to get over the economic crisis their candidate contends should be uniting the country. At about 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, the camp released "Week" (subscription), an...

Obama & RNC In Bailout Brawl

The fiscal meltdown is yet again the focal point of dueling Democratic and Republican TV ads today. Barack Obama released another two-minute mini-speech on the state of the nation's economy and how he would depart from the approach taken by...

Obama Knocks Overpaid Executives

Barack Obama continued his economic offensive this afternoon, taking up a topic which he has hit on before (subscription) -- executive pay. "Parachutes" (subscription) notes that the CEO of Washington Mutual, a bank that collapsed last week, "could walk away...

MoveOn Says McCain's Friends Have Made A 'Mess'

John McCain sure has a lot of friends MoveOn.org doesn't approve of. After releasing the first ad of its $7 million fall campaign last week calling the GOP nominee out for his "friends" in the oil industry, the group unveiled...

Obama Stays On The Air With Economic Message

As part of his recently announced campaign suspension, John McCain is pulling all of his TV ads off-air. But, as when he dismissed McCain's request to postpone Friday's debate, Barack Obama is again refusing to follow his rival's lead. The...

Economic Battleground Expands From Wall Street To Bermuda

Another day, another pair of dueling "ads" from Barack Obama and John McCain. While McCain attempted to change the subject Monday, releasing a spot about Obama's origins in the shady world of Chicago politics, both candidates once again focused their...

Economic Surrogate Smackdown

In a week when kitchen table issues have returned to the forefront of the presidential campaign, Barack Obama and John McCain are each battling to prove that they would be the right man to lead the country in a time...

Report Finds Huge Disparity In Party Sponsorship of Candidate Ads

John McCain may pride himself on bucking his party in the Senate, but when it comes to funding his campaign ads, he certainly doesn't shy away from the GOP. A report [PDF] released Wednesday by the Wisconsin Advertising Project, an...

Obama Seeks To Capitalize On Fiscal Fears

All eyes are on Wall Street this week, and Barack Obama has a slew of economy-related ads out in battleground states. He is also using the opportunity to appeal to a group that has shown signs of straying from his...

Wall Street Woes Dominate Airwaves

Amid financial turmoil on Wall Street, Barack Obama released a rare two-minute spot today that delves into his proposals for reviving the economy, and John McCain released two 30-second ads Tuesday afternoon and this morning that focus on the...

Obama Hammers McCain On Strength Of Fundamentals

With Wall Street still reeling from news of Lehman Brothers' failure and Merrill Lynch's sale to Bank of America, Barack Obama is seizing on comments made that same morning by rival John McCain. The only sound in "Fundamentals" (subscription) is...

Financial Crisis Is Crux of McCain-Palin Ad

Coinciding with Monday's early-morning announcement that investment firm Lehman Brothers would file for bankruptcy, the McCain camp released its latest ad, "Crisis" (subscription), which contends only "proven reformers John McCain and Sarah Palin can fix" the economy. The ad makes...

From Colorado To Minnesota To Michigan

While most lawmakers, insiders and journalists have been focused on Colorado and Minnesota the last two weeks, it won’t be long until other key states are back in the spotlight. With two short months to go before the election, the...

National Labor TV Ads Launched

A labor advocacy group will begin airing $5 million worth of ads today -- Labor Day -- on national cable and in targeted states to press for legislation that would allow workers to organize without secret ballot elections, the Associated...

Sarcastic 'Thanks' To Conventioneers

A left-leaning advocacy group released an ad today in almost 400,000 hotel rooms across the country, including 5,000 in the Twin Cities area, tweaking conservatives for what the group contends has been eight years of "failure" -- most notably Republicans’...

Economic Plan Keeps Tone Upbeat For Olympics

Barack Obama has released a second TV ad for Olympics coverage, a positive spot focusing on his plan to fix the economy. "Three Bedroom Ranch" (subscription) opens with images of a construction crew building a house from the ground up...

Obama's Attack Turns A New Page

Barack Obama continues a streak of negative advertising today with a new TV spot slamming John McCain. But rather than fight another battle on McCain's "celebrity" terms, the Illinois senator attempts to move the debate back to topics that are...

Obama's Olympics Appeal

The Obama campaign released a new ad this morning that it will run during the Olympics on the NBC Universal channels broadcasting the Games. "Hands" (subscription) encourages Americans to build a green economy and presents Obama as a leader with...

The Free Trade Express

Capitalizing on his trip to Latin America this week, John McCain released a Spanish-language radio ad on Wednesday touting his support for a proposed free trade agreement between Colombia and the United States. "Colombia Trade" (subscription), which is running on...

Working For The Workers

As Barack Obama embarked on a week-long patriotism tour, aimed at fighting a sustained whisper campaign questioning his love of country, his campaign released its second TV ad of the general election Monday afternoon. "Dignity" (subscription) touches on many of...

Let The General Election Ads Begin

In his first ads of the general election campaign, John McCain is directing his attention to the economic struggles of Hispanic voters in the Southwest. The Spanish-language radio ad (subscription), which began running in Nevada and New Mexico on June...

Shifting States, Gears

Amid criticism for his stance against the 21st-century GI bill and his attempts at defending that position, as well as the continual veep questions, John McCain had his hands full over the long Memorial Day weekend. Now, McCain is attempting...

Too Liberal For The Club

Club For Growth launched a new ad in New Mexico on Thursday, "Budget" (subscription), that criticizes Rep. Heather Wilson (R-N.M.) for what the group says is her liberal stance on fiscal issues. The ad contrasts Wilson's votes in the House...

Red, White And Blue-Collar

With just six days before voters head to the polls in Indiana and North Carolina, Barack Obama seems to have refocused his campaign efforts within the last 24 hours. From his strong repudiation of Rev. Jeremiah Wright on Tuesday to...

A Fiscal Focus In Indiana

Barack Obama is the target of yet another negative ad today, but this one is not coming from Republicans. Hillary Rodham Clinton.--> The American Leadership Project, a 527 group financed almost exclusively by the American Federation of State, County and...