Jim Kuhnhenn, The Associated Press, March 5, 2008
WASHINGTON — A Democratic-leaning group financed by a major labor union and wealthy liberal activists is running ads against Sen. John McCain in Ohio and Pennsylvania, the beginning of a media campaign against the GOP nominee-in-waiting.
Called “McSame,” the ad portrays McCain and President Bush as interchangeable on key issues such as Iraq, tax cuts and health care.
The ad is the work of the Campaign to Defend America, a nonprofit organization that is among anti-war and left-of-center groups that have pledged a multimillion-dollar effort to target McCain and congressional Republicans on the consequences of the Iraq war on the U.S. economy.
The group has pledged to spend more than $1 million on the current ad campaign, which is to extend to other states. The group is buying relatively modest amounts of time compared to what presidential candidates like Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are spending.
According to records filed with the Federal Election Commission last week, the group planned to spend only about $140,000 on the ad in Ohio.
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Liberal Group Goes After McCain
Jim Kuhnhenn, The Associated Press, March 5, 2008
WASHINGTON — A Democratic-leaning group financed by a major labor union and wealthy liberal activists is running ads against Sen. John McCain in Ohio and Pennsylvania, the beginning of a media campaign against the GOP nominee-in-waiting.
Called “McSame,” the ad portrays McCain and President Bush as interchangeable on key issues such as Iraq, tax cuts and health care.
The ad is the work of the Campaign to Defend America, a nonprofit organization that is among anti-war and left-of-center groups that have pledged a multimillion-dollar effort to target McCain and congressional Republicans on the consequences of the Iraq war on the U.S. economy.
The group has pledged to spend more than $1 million on the current ad campaign, which is to extend to other states. The group is buying relatively modest amounts of time compared to what presidential candidates like Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are spending.
According to records filed with the Federal Election Commission last week, the group planned to spend only about $140,000 on the ad in Ohio.
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