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The latest Tote Board take on John Edwards's new ad -- "Heroes."
The latest Tote Board take on the ads of Hillary and Obama .
Following up on her policy address yesterday on the subject, Hillary Clinton has trotted out a spot on her health care plan. It's simple and direct and along with the speech, it's taking an issue that was once an Achilles Heel (given her failure...
Joe Biden is on the air with an ad where he talks straight to the camera and speaks eloquently about a flag-draped coffin returning home and how the war in Iraq must end. Blake Dvorak at RealClear Politics raises the right issue: Isn't Biden the Democratic...
In contrast to everyone else in the campaign, Rudy Giuliani in the early stages is going old-fashioned by running his ads on radio. The most notable , "Fence," running mostly in New Hampshire and South Carolina, focuses on his efforts to deal...
Mitt Romney, who leaves no stone unturned, is back on the air in Iowa ,
thanking the voters for his straw poll victory. The ad features his
speech last Saturday, ending with the line, "Change begins in Iowa and
change begins today." It wasn't...
Hillary Clinton has finally hit the airwaves in Iowa -- the last major Democratic candidate to do so. And her ad is a strong one. Titled "Invisible," it talks about all the invisible ordinary people in America who are ignored by the Bush Administration...
Barack Obama is up with a new glossy 60-second biographical ad in Iowa, available here -- and it's a good one. It plays on the candidate's strengths as a healer and uniter -- and draws the unspoken comparisons with Hillary on the war and on ties...
Further fallout from the debate: Barack Obama is now running a radio ad in South Carolina directly aimed at the black community. It follows this debate exchange, as recounted by CNN: During the debate, one YouTube questioner asked the Illinois Democrat...
Until now, Mitt Romney has pretty much had the GOP airwaves to himself -- which is one reason he's sprinted to a lead in the first two states. Now, Rudy Giuliani has begun running 3 radio ads in Iowa and New Hampshire including this one , "Out...
We mentioned last night the terrific YouTube ad from the debate from the Edwards camp which finally responds to all the controversy about his $400 haircut. It's available here . As we said then, if we were running the Edwards campaign, we'd put...
We did a column several weeks ago on how big an asset Elizabeth Edwards had become in her husband's race for the nomination. Thus, it's no surprise that she now stars in one of his ads , now running in New Hampshire. It's essentially a glowing...
Mitt Romney is up with a new 60-second spot, "Ocean," available here . It's the best ad of the campaign so far because it eloquently addresses an issue -- the polluted culture in which kids grow up -- that no one is talking about in the...
Barack Obama has begun his advertising foray, with two biographical ads, available here , running in Iowa. They stress what makes him different -- namely, his "togetherness rhetoric" (which first came to national attention at the 2004 Democratic...
Yesterday, by a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court (in the words of the NY Times) ruled that "the restrictions on television advertisements paid for from corporate or union treasuries in the weeks before an election amounted to censorship of core political...