"Celebrity" Attack on the Airwaves in Yet Another Form
| Wed Aug. 20, 2008 6:54 AM PDT
McCain has a new radio ad out that says, "Celebrities like to spend their millions. Barack Obama is no different. Only it's your money he wants to spend."
I think it's safe to say that the Obama campaign hasn't hammered any message as hard as McCain has hammered this "celebrity" attack. Which is funny, because you'd think "McCain is four more years of Bush" would be easier to make stick, and more effective to boot.
And, for what it's worth, it looks like I was wrong about the "celebrity" attack. I thought it was too transparently silly to be usable. These new poll numbers, which show McCain leading by five, indicate otherwise.
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Submitted by Eric Ferguson (not verified) on Wed Aug. 20, 2008 9:51 AM PDT.
The Reuters article indicates that Zogby didn't find that the celebrity ad worked. Rather, Obama is losing support in his base. He's done too much of what prior Democrats have done to blow elections, try moving to the right to pick up swing voters. Obama hasn't gotten the swing voters, and disaffected supporters. It looks like bending on oil drilling really hurt, or it may have been a last straw. On the other hand, I was reassured when he said at Saddleback that the problem with the supreme court was they were too deferential to executive power.
