If McCain's campaign is going to use Obama's associations against him, they why in the heck can we not use the Keating Five scandal and John McCain's associations against him? The Keating Five scandal should be the torpedo that finally sinks the McCain campaign for good. McCain's pulled off the gloves, now it's time for use to do the same. USE IT!!!!
Read more »Progress! Battleground states keep shrinking....
The list narrows almost every day!
Read more »New TV ads are needed with real Americans!
Enough with the policy ads and ads defending Obama from McCain's attacks. People know what his policies are at this point, and many folks (esp. those who are scared, broke, etc.) are going to vote with their emotions and values. So make a few commercials with Obama supporters, real Americans talking about why they're voting for Obama ...
Read more »5 Short Ad Scripts for Obama
1. Culture Wars
Headlines and TV images collage of rightwing culture battles—Terry Schivo case, Newt Gingrich shutting down gov’t, intimidation from Right to Life protestors at a clinic, right-wing radio hate speech. Media people and GOP leaders talking about McCain “firing up the base” and making a hard turn to the right.
Exposé on the Lobbyists of John McCain
The lobbyists that surround McCain are a testament to the way the man will run his office. But people just don't "get" lobbyists and don't really understand what they do. We should have a commercial that does a quick 15 second exposé on a few and show what their résumé looks like.
Read more »McCain's Big Excuse
The National Service Forum created an opening. This excuse that McCain's ads have gone negative because Obama will not meet in town hall style debates. It's an admission that they are going negative. There's an instant ad in there, "why has John McCain broken his promise to run a clean campaign?
Read more »52% of Americans think Obama will raise middle-class's taxes
We should run an ad using the study showing how each candidate's plans would impact Americans: under Obama's, families making under $112k per year would get more tax relief than under McCain's, whose plan reserve the biggest cuts for those making over $600k. Also, show what the two plans would do to the budget deficit: McCain's would make the deficits even bigger.
Read more »Ad idea
Oh, we SO have to use that montage from the Daily Show demonstrating how McCain's lies in 2008 are exactly like Bush's in 2000! See Daily Show, Friday, 5 Sep 2008!
Read more »Obama must start painting the Bush we remember and tie in McCain NOW
Has anyone noticed how goofily detached and irrelevant Bush has become lately?
Read more »Community Organizer AD
I think the GOP really opened the door for a great bio commercial...
They mock community service, [clip of Palin and GOP snearing and mocking community organizers] but...
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7%
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51%
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