Campaign ads

The Democratic National Committee released a new anti-McCain spot over the weekend, culled from the January forum where he uttered the best-known — but hardly the only — version of his “100 years in Iraq” fantasy. The Washington Post’s Channel ‘08 blog reports that it will run mainly on the cable news channels. (Below the [...]

Hillary Clinton pulls out economic collapse, world wars, and Osama bin Laden in her Pennsylvania closer. Obama uses a prior Clinton attack to tie her to lobbyists and Washington business-as-usual.

Hillary Clinton, “Kitchen” (:30)

Barack Obama, “Exactly” (:30)

With a week to go before the Pennsylvania primary, Hillary Clinton’s campaign has rolled out a new ad that seeks to keep Barack Obama’s remarks about guns, religion, and working class bitterness front and center down the stretch. “Pennsylvania” consists of man/woman-on-the-street soundbites condemning Obama and playing up the alleged affront to class and regional [...]

In their latest spots, both of which hit the air yesterday in Pennsylvania, Hillary Clinton goes for sentimentalism and Pennsylvania ties, and Barack Obama courts the female vote.

Polls from the state are all over the place — an 18-point lead for Clinton in new SurveyUSA numbers released yesterday, a 45-45 tie in ARG data from [...]

3 a.m.: Debt collector calls

3 a.m.: Nobody’s home

3 a.m.: The kitchen sink

Special Friday bonus: Below the jump, a workplace-unfriendly Hillary/Obama pastiche based on Sarah Silverman’s “I’m Fucking Matt Damon” routine.

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Presidential hopeful Mike Gravel has cast his lot with the Libertarian Party and, like any respectable contender for the highest office in the land, he’s got a song on YouTube. Rx2008, the crew that brought you George W. Bush singing “Sunday Bloody Sunday” and “The End of the World (As We Know It),” produced this [...]

Hillary Clinton’s campaign just released a new ad with an old theme. “It’s 3 a.m.,” an announcer ominously declares, and a crisis is looming, one that John McCain (not Barack Obama) isn’t best suited to handle — “home foreclosures mounting, markets teetering.” As Josh Marshall points out, the last “3 a.m.” ad was roundly criticized, [...]

All’s fair in love and video clip editing, which means a lot of campaign-related video — pro and amateur alike — is getting put through the mashup machine at YouTube. Below, we present two cases in point.

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Late last week the McCain campaign released its first television ad for the general election. Long on pomp, it includes footage of McCain as a POW and concludes with this tag: “The American President Americans have been waiting for.” The second, web-only spot is biographical.

McCain TV spot: “The American President” (:60)

McCain web spot: “Heroes” (2:00)

This week Hillary Clinton hit the Pennsylvania airwaves with a TV spot called “Level” that had run previously in Ohio. Prior to that, Barack Obama’s campaign had put three ads into rotation in the state. The first two Obama commercials are new; the third first ran in Iowa last summer.

Hillary Clinton, “Level” (:30)

Barack Obama, “Opportunity” [...]