Immigrants’ advocates and the liberal media watchdog group Media Matters are so angry that CNN plans to run a four-hour special called “Latinos in America” next week without mentioning the role of CNN anchor Lou Dobbs in fomenting hatred of Latinos that they raised $16,000 to create and run More…
The health care multi-millionaire’s group, Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, is going on the air in 11 states, targeting 14 senators (12 Democrats and two Republicans) with pretty standard attacks on government waste and the threat of bureaucrats interfering in medical decisions.
The list of targets is a little bit More…
The Obama campaign announced Friday morning that it is investing new resources for a TV blitz deep in Republican territory, running new ads in North Dakota, Georgia and Sen. John McCain’s home state of Arizona.
The announcement is either a small-buy head fake, which could stoke heady press coverage of More…
While walking around Washington, it’s hard to miss all the large Chevron ads. They are at bus stops and in metro stations, and they feature “everyday people” promising to conserve energy. “I will carpool to work,” one person in the ad says. “I will take the golf clubs out of More…
The Alliance for Climate Protection, the environmental advocacy organization founded by Al Gore, says that ABC refused to run its TV spot promoting alternative energy.
ABC spokeswoman Julie Hoover told the Guardian that the ad was too “controversial” to run during network-sponsored programs.
A study by the Wisconsin Advertising Project (pdf), released today, details the McCain and Obama campaigns’ ad spending last week.
Overall, Sen. Barack Obama outspent Sen. John McCain and the Republican National Committee, $17.5 million to a combined $11 million. The Democratic nominee more than tripled McCain’s spending in More…
In the annals of campaign advertising, it stands as a legend: A young girl plucking flower petals, counting each as it falls, is interrupted by a sinister voice counting down 10 … nine … eight … until a nuclear blast fills the screen, a fire-ball replacing the black terror in More…
It’s supposed to be Sen. John McCain’s week, but the Democratic National Committee (DNC) keeps trying to grab some of the spotlight. With math.
The DNC launched a new YouTube video, “90% Bush,” arguing that McCain is just like Bush:
ANCHORAGE — Gov. Sarah Palin is known as a reform candidate around here who bucks the party’s old guard. But according to some great reporting at The Trail, it looks like she isn’t quite such an outsider. It tuns out that she actually ran a Sen. Ted Stevens 527 More…
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