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WASHINGTON -- Nervous Democrats went sharply negative yesterday in the unexpectedly tight race to hold on to Ted Kennedy's old Senate seat in Massachusetts. Democrats and their money are flooding into the state, along with new ads reliving old elections and invoking radio king Rush Limbaugh as Hitler, in an attack on the Republican candidate. The state's attorney general, Martha Coakley, released the first negative ad of the campaign comparing state Sen. Scott Brown to former President George W. Bush and ex-veep Dick Cheney. "Who is Scott Brown really?" the ad's announcer asks. "A Republican. In lockstep with Washington Republicans,"...

Responding to that Obama "His Choice" ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPETdiZMfV0

John McCain's come-from-behind bid for the presidency is being damaged by the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, better known as the McCain-Feingold bill. The workings of McCain-Feingold and the Democratic Party's huge fund-raising advantage have left Mr. McCain debilitatingly dependent on the $85 million in taxpayer financing he received last month. The Politico newspaper reported yesterday that Mr. Obama is outspending the combined McCain campaign/Republican National Committee campaign effort by as much as 8-1, and that probably understates Mr. McCain's disadvantage. In the first three weeks of September, Mr. Obama ran 1,342 television commercials in the Washington media market,...

The National Rifle Association has released four ads against Barack Obama and Joe Biden. "Way of Life" features a Michigan voter reminding viewers about Obama's "bitter" comments that he made in San Francisco. "Veteran" has an Iraq veteran talking about his freedoms. "Hunter" features a Virginia voter talking about Obama's record on ammunition taxes and shotguns. "Pennsylvania Values" tells voters about Joe Biden's record on gun issues.

Has anyone started a thread about conservative 527 groups in battleground states? I'm looking at donating, but I'm unsure which groups (and which states) would be most efficient. I'd appreciate any suggestions.

The Obama campaign is mocking John McCain for not using a computer. From the AP story about the computer illiterate ad: "Our economy wouldn't survive without the Internet, and cyber-security continues to represent one our most serious national security threats," [Obama spokesman Dan] Pfeiffer said. "It's extraordinary that someone who wants to be our president and our commander in chief doesn't know how to send an e-mail." Well, I guess it depends on what you mean by "extraordinary." The reason he doesn't send email is that he can't use a keyboard because of the relentless beatings he received from the...

The Nation -- Republicans are sharpening their knives against Barack Obama. No smear is too insignificant to broadcast. According to Time Magazine's Michael Scherer, Floyd Brown, the creator of the infamous Willie Horton ad--credited with sinking Michael Dukakis's candidacy in 1988--is launching a new ad campaign against Obama.

Chris Matthews can't get enough of John Edwards' brutal-yet-funny anti-Hillary ad, playing it twice during this evening's "Hardball." Set to the Blue Danube Waltz and based on clips from last week's debate, the theme is Hillary's double-talk on Iraq, Social Security and immigration [her triple-toe loop on driver's licenses for illegal immigrants]. But in the three-cushion game that is presidential billiards, two of Chris's guests surmised that the ad, in taking down Hillary, would likely redound to Barack Obama's benefit. View video here [includes the Edwards' ad].

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Thursday, July 26, called on rival Tom Tancredo to stop airing a "blatantly dishonest" campaign ad in Iowa that accuses Huckabee of favoring amnesty for illegal immigrants. Huckabee said Tancredo either did sloppy research or purposefully mischaracterized his position. "When people engage in a completely false attack, it's usually an act of desperation. To me, it's a badge of honor because he sees that we are reaching the people we are trying to reach," Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, said. Tancredo campaign spokeswoman Bay Buchanan said the ad would not be pulled and insisted...

The Supreme Court loosened restrictions today on corporate- and union-funded television ads that air close to elections, weakening a key provision of a landmark campaign finance law.

Gauging by the attack ads flowing from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the party's House contenders are running against Exxon, Pfizer and Bush. The ads tie Republican House candidates to unpopular industries and an unpopular President. Some of these ads are exaggerations. At times DCCC ads run completely off the rails of factual accuracy. One falsely implies that an Illinois candidate tried to ban Dr. Seuss books from schools. Another correctly states that an Ohio candidate was investigated "for abusing her position," but fails to mention that the investigation found "no substance" to the allegation. Others claim Republicans voted to...

Every two years, The Stiletto hears the same lament: This year, candidates have hit a new low in negative campaigning. This election is no exception. "Both political parties are functioning in the 2006 House races as factories for attack ads, but the National Republican Campaign Committee's work stands out this year for the sheer volume of assaults on the personal character of Democratic House challengers," claims a report issued by the Annenberg Political Fact Check, a project of media and public policy think tank The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. The report continues: The ads being...

New McCaskill for Missouri TV ad featuring actor Michael J. Fox talking about Claire McCaskill and stem cell research. Go to www.ClaireOnline.com to find out more.

You gotta see this video. Drudge posted it late yesterday. It's a campaign advertisement created by Hollywood mogul David Zucker. The intent was to have Republican organizations use this ad in the closing weeks of the 2006 campaign. Apparently Republican leaders are afraid to use the ad .. they say it's over the top. You watch. You decide.

by Mark Finkelstein August 17, 2006 - 08:07 Hillary is on the air! There I was on the couch this morning in full pajamahadeen mode, searching for nuggests of MSM bias with which to titillate NB readers, when for the first time a Hillary campaign ad popped up. It's all pretty standard stuff. The theme is 'Standing Up': Hillary standing up for jobs, for military bases, for health care. As I type this, a freeze frame shows a nicely-coiffed Hillary in a striped pink shirt and sporting a single strand of pearls. On a desk in the background you can...

Those of you who are working on campaigns this year, TAKE NOTE: In the famous Michigan 7th House primary, Joe Schwarz made heavy use of pre-recorded phone messages in the days before the election. Voters were inundated with such calls from Dubya, Laura, Schwarz, McCain, the Seven Dwarfs, and Cinderella. Joe lost. Between all candidates, I think my household counted 10 such calls in the 24 hours before the polls opened. We tried to get them to stop by calling the candidates, but the calls just kept coming. I think that all of the candidates who used such calls LOST...

Imagine my surprise when, after using the example of Bush's 2004 campaign ad showing an image 9/11 to chide some on the right yesterday for being a bit hypocritical with their outrage at the DCCC's new video, I read that Erick at RedState has used the exact same example....to charge Democrats of hypocrisy. Let me see if I have this right. If you were against Bush using images of 9/11 in 2004 but aren't opposed to using images of flag-draped coffins in 2006, you're a hypocrite. So far so good. But if you weren't opposed to Bush using images of...

I hope I'm doing this right. I've only posted one other vanity on this website before. But, I just had to share this with my Freeper brothers and sisters. Check out this TV ad by Vernon Robinson, who is a black Conservative running for Congress in North Carolina. Oh my, if only all Conservatives had this much intestinal fortitude. You can view the ad here: http://www.vernonrobinson.com/twilightzone.shtml

WASHINGTON - Though unregulated money primarily fueled liberal causes during the first half of the presidential campaign, 527 groups supporting Republicans outspent those backing Democrats 3-to-1 in the final three weeks, campaign-watchdog groups said. In the decisive weeks of a neck-and-neck race, 527 organizations funded in part by wealthy Texans unleashed a nearly $30 million television ad blitz against Sen. John Kerry while Democrat-friendly groups spent $10.3 million in attack ads on President Bush during the same period, according to the nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity. Though GOP analysts suggested the ad push in key swing states such as Ohio...

ARLINGTON, VA -- Today, Bush-Cheney '04 announced the release of the campaign's newest television advertisement, "No Limit."  Kerry will say anything for political gain, and is now claiming he'll always support our military despite voting against $87 billion to supply our troops with body armor and bullets.  He even proposed slashing our intelligence budget after the first World Trade Center attack.        Script For "No Limit"Voice Over:Just when you thought there was a limit on what John Kerry would say, now he claims he’ll always support our military.The same Kerry who voted against 87 billion for our troops in combat in the...