Immigration is still a big issue, according to the Latino advocacy group America’s Voice. So big that presidential and congressional candidates spent $27.5 million running 253 advertisements about the issue during the run up to November 4. Here are a couple samples from close races. In many races, the issue was treated as a vehicle [...]
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Candidates Spent $27.5 Million on Immigration Ads, Latino Group Says
November 23, 2008 – 10:22 am
Battle for the West: NV Leans, NM Favors, CO T-Shirt Update
September 24, 2008 – 10:51 am
Nevada Feeling Blue? Sen. John McCain has held slim, within-the-margin-of-error edges in Nevada polls since the GOP convention. But Jon Ralston writes today in the Las Vegas Sun that “despite the history and some of the intangibles… [Nevada] is starting to lean to Obama, if ever so slightly.” Ignoring the (statistically meaningless) polls, the numbers [...]
McCain Strikes Back at Obama in New Spanish Ad
September 23, 2008 – 5:14 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fClpMEG2N2o In response to Barack Obama’s “Dos Caras” ad, John McCain is bringing up Obama’s promise to meet with Venezuelan demagogue Hugo Chavez, painting the Democrat as naïve and juxtaposing him with a fiery, expletive laden speech by Chavez. The ad is airing in Florida, home to many anti-communist Latin American exiles and the one [...]
Obama, McCain in Spanish Advertising Duel
September 23, 2008 – 5:13 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry9LnAazwMg Barack Obama is airing this new ad, “Dos Caras” (“Two Faces”) in heavily Latino media markets in the Southeast U.\S. The ad’s ominous Spanish-language voiceover ties John McCain to Rush Limbaugh and George Bush, saying, They want us to forget the insults we’ve put up with, the intolerance. They made us feel marginalized in [...]
McCain Attacks Obama in New Spanish Ad
September 22, 2008 – 6:06 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyKGHvRL2_U Proving that the presidential candidates see Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico as key states and Latinos as a key demographic, John McCain has begun airing this ad in those markets. The ad blames Obama and Democrats in Congress for the failure of the comprehensive immigration reform that McCain championed. Obama and his allies in [...]
