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Independent group’s pro-Palin TV ad goes national

October 23rd, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Ads, Interest groups, Presidential race, 2008, Republicans
Our Country Deserves Better PAC, which says it has one objective -- "to defeat Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election" -- has gone national on some cable networks (including Fox News Channel) with this ad: It is unusual, to...

ACORN chronicles: McCain, Obama campaigns tussle over voter registration and fraud

October 14th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Democrats, Election law, Interest groups, Presidential race, 2008, Republicans, Voters
For more than a week, top Republicans and John McCain's campaign have been accusing the liberal group ACORN -- of participating in widespread fraud. The group -- Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- registers voters in low-income neighborhoods....

Family Research Council ad takes aim at Obama on abortion

October 14th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Abortion, Ads, Democrats, Interest groups, Presidential race, 2008, Republicans
The conservative Family Research Council says it will spend $100,000 on an ad campaign in the key states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Michigan, and that the effort will include this TV spot: To see Obama talk about his thinking...

‘Gossip Girl’ stars have lead roles in anti-McCain ad

October 14th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Ads, Democrats, Interest groups, Presidential race, 2008, Republicans
MoveOn.org Political Action takes a satirical approach in its latest campaign-related TV ad -- a spot that features two stars of the CW network's Gossip Girl, and other actors, urging young people to "talk to your parents" about Republican presidential...

Independent groups aim ads at McCain on health care and GI benefits

October 8th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Ads, Health, Interest groups, Presidential race, 2008, Republicans
Health care and veterans' benefits are the topics of two new TV ads from interest groups that take some hard shots at Republican presidential nominee John McCain:

Groups expand ad campaigns attacking Obama & Palin

October 1st, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Ads, Democrats, Interest groups, Presidential race, 2008, Republicans
There's news from both sides of the presidential campaign this morning about independent groups' TV ads that take hard shots at the candidates. One ad criticizes Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama over his views of the Iraq War. The other...

MoveOn chief says he wouldn’t do headline on ‘Betray Us’ ad the same way again

September 18th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Bush administration, Interest groups, Iraq war
One year after causing an uproar with an ad in The New York Times that asked if Gen. David Petraeus might also be known as "General Betray Us," the head of MoveOn.org Political Action this morning told USA TODAY and...

MoveOn takes aim at McCain’s ‘friends’

September 16th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Ads, Democrats, Interest groups, Presidential race, 2008, Republicans
MoveOn.org Political Action's latest TV ad echoes a line of attack taken by Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama in recent days. Using Republican nominee John McCain habit of slipping the words "my friends" into his speeches against him, MoveOn makes...

Planned Parenthood fires at McCain with ad; says he’s ‘twisting facts’

September 12th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Abortion, Ads, Democrats, Interest groups, Presidential race, 2008, Republicans
Planned Parenthood says it is putting this TV ad on the air in Pittsburgh and Denver to counter an ad released this week by Republican presidential nominee John McCain's campaign: The script: Narrator: "Every eight minutes a child is sexually...

Interest groups react to Obama-Biden ticket

August 23rd, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Interest groups
Interest groups are weighing in with their thoughts about Sen. Barack Obama's selection of Sen. Joseph Biden as his Democratic running mate. National Organization for Women: Senator Hillary Clinton was our first choice, and that of 18 million primary voters,...
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