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Clinton PR People Send Out Mailer Featuring $2200 Gun

Paul Loeb | Posted 05.04.2008 | Home


Paul Loeb

Continuing to parrot every possible Republican sound bite, Hillary's PR people have just sent out a mailer accusing Obama of being insufficiently supportive of gun rights.

Jason Linkins

Campaign AdWatch: Freedom's Watch Follies

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics


Here at Campaign AdWatch, we see an awful lot of politically themed ads. And most of them are just awful, which stands to reason, since the people wh...

Jason Linkins

Campaign AdWatch: Read Poets' Society

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics


The latest advertisement from the Clinton campaign is the shrewdest and most fortuitously-timed piece of campaign video we've seen in a while. Check ...

Jason Linkins

McCain Healthcare Plan To Extend Promise Of Ineffective Half-Measures, According To Latest Ad

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics


Twice in John McCain's new advertisement touting his so-called health care "plan," McCain mentions that the key issue is not "the quality of healthcar...

Lou Dobbs Rants About Clinton, Obama "Distortions"

The Huffington Post | Dipayan Gupta | Posted 04.22.2008 | Media


CNN's Jessica Yellin's report on Lou Dobbs' show last night on the back-stabbing half truths of political ad campaigns was apparently a revelation for...

Jason Linkins

Hillary Clinton Ad Features Osama Bin Laden: Campaign AdWatch

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics


Today's polling indicated a slight upward trend for Senator Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania, with most numbers tacking above the margin for error. St...

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Campaign AdWatch: Obama Hits Back At Clinton, Lobbyists

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics


On the last episode of Amargura Y Lagrimas, the searing, endless, telenovela of the Democratic primary, Hillary Clinton had gathered a handful of Penn...

Jason Linkins

Campaign AdWatch: Mike Gravel Will Have His Revenge On The Beatles Songbook

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics


Mike Gravel may not have ended up contributing too much to the Democratic primaries, but if there was one achievement where Gravel led all comers by a...

Jason Linkins

John McCain Campaign AdWatch: Stop Snitching

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics


John McCain's new ad is about Heroes, and Memories, and Teachers, and more Memories. Misty, water-colored, memories of a time when McCain was a wee l...

Girl In 3 AM Commercial Films Ad For Obama

Huffington Post | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics


The actor playing one of the sleeping children in Sen. Clinton's famous "3 AM" commercial has cut another campaign ad -- this one for Sen. Obama, who ...

Jason Linkins

Campaign AdWatch: John McCain In Xanadu

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics


What exactly is this video? The opening credits for the new season of Dr. Who? The new Moby video? No, my friends, 'tis the latest advertisement fr...

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3AM Phone Call Girl Favors Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.09.2008 | Politics


Hey, have you heard? The little girl from the famous "3am phone call" ad is actually a grown-up supporter of Barack Obama! Which is, I guess, a TOTA...

Girl In Clinton's '3am Phone Ad' Supports Obama

The New Argument | Evan Miller | Posted 03.08.2008 | Politics


From the New Argument: Casey Knowles, a High School Senior in Washington state, recently discovered she was one of the sleeping children in Clinton's...

Obama Skin Tone Darker In Clinton Ad?

America Blog | John Ararvosis | Posted 03.04.2008 | Politics


Via America Blog: I went and got the original footage from the Clinton ad, and then compared it to 3 different video clips of the same debate from 3 ...

Jason Linkins

Latest '3AM' Parody Uncovers The Real Threat Facing America

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics


This latest parody of that silly "3AM And There's A Phone Ringing" commercial comes from Public Service Administration, the same folks who brought you...

Clinton Releases New Texas, Ohio Ads

Huffington Post | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics


Sen. Clinton has two new ads out on the eve of primaries in Texas and Ohio. In the first, Clinton hits Obama on his inactivity while serving as chair...

Jason Linkins

Clinton '3AM Phone' Ad Inspires Parody, Insipid Blog Posts

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.02.2008 | Politics


So, unless you've been living under a rock, you've seen the recent ad from the Clinton campaign in which your children are sleeping and it's 3AM and s...

Obama Airs National Security Ad

Huffington Post | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics


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Clinton Ad Plays National Security Card

Huffington Post | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics


**NEW UPDATES BELOW*** "Entering a proud tradition of Democrats trying to scare the beejesus out of voters by implying the rival candidate may be res...

Jason Linkins

Campaign AdWatch: I Can Has Specifics?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.20.2008 | Politics


Hey, kids! Are you all strung out on that Hope that Democratic candidate/pusherman Barack Obama has been selling? Heading into the long, dark, teati...

Clinton, Obama Launch Negative Ads

Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics


Sen. Hillary Clinton is "scrambling" to stave off a defeat in Wisconsin, AP reports, and has launched her first negative TV ad hitting Obama for not d...

Jason Linkins

Campaign AdWatch: The Audacity Of Calendars

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.07.2008 | Politics


Americans are just crazy about voting. And they don't seem to care about all the fancy election "rules" that govern where and when the votes happen. ...

Jason Linkins

Campaign AdWatch: First and Ten

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics


The rap on Obama has been that he's a guy who can make a powerful speech, but too often comes up short on specifics where his plans and policies are c...

Television Ad War Goes National

Wall Street Journal | Aaron Rutkoff | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics


With five days left before Super Tuesday, presidential campaign ads have gone national -- yet some candidates are on the airwaves in more of the count...

Jason Linkins

Campaign AdWatch: What Color Is Your Parachute?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.31.2008 | Politics


OH NOES! Someone flew that airplane from the Ronald Reagan Dream Factory And Supply-Side Economics Emporium that served as the backdrop of last night...