Where are Folks and What Ads are you Seeing?

[livedemocarticordie]

I live in DC. (Disclaimer: this is a household of rabid political junkies and politcal cable shows ar eon all evening and weekend.)

I have seen Barack ads wall to wall plastered on the hour all week long. These two especually:

The big orange roll of yarn unraveling (Health Care) and

The biographical one about his mom, grandparents etc where he talks about the astronauts, waving the little american flag and gettign up at 4:30 am to do his studies with his mom (love thta ad).

WHAT impresses me is that Maryland and DC are heavy OBAMA and I assume the ads are for the benefit of Virginians. The loop is constant; he is killing. I have barely seen a McCain ad this week. Well a paid one on tv. I see them all the time being played for free by the pundits. ROFL.

[femmocrat]

1. In western PA.

I have also seen the same biographical one here and I think a different one on Health care. Haven't seen the ball of yarn one yet.

We are still seeing way too many negative ads from McCain, though. There is a really annoying one that they play over and over with clicking typing keys and white words on a black screen. I'm not sure what it's about as I run off screaming every time I hear that clicking. I have also seen the one that looks like several rolls of film. I don't watch them, though.

[Terran]

2. Central Missouri (rural, conservative mostly)

I watched some tv on Friday because I was at home, and saw three Obama ads to none for McCain. Obviously the campaign is hitting it hard here because we are split down the middle, basically.

[cali]

3. Nothern VT, and we've seen every negative McCain ad they have

lots of Obama ads as well, but not the biographical one you reference.

[livedemocarticordie]

6. negative ads in Vermont?

Haha what idiots. Do they think Vermont is going to go McCain?

[cali]

10. I should have explained that. The ads aren't for VT

They're directed at northern NH. Most of the tv media for northern nh is out of vt. that's why we're saturated with ads from both campaigns here.

[Left Is Write]

4. I am in Idaho.

I'm seeing a lot of one particular ad, an Obama ad on taxes.

Most of the political ads I've seen are for Larry LaRocco (D) and Jim Risch (R), running against each other for Larry Craig's Senate seat, and for incumbent Congressman Bill Sali (R) against Walt Minnick (D).

[ecstatic]

5. I saw one on local NBC this morning in ATL GA during MTP nt

[knowledgeispwr]

7. West-Central NC (Triad region)

I don't watch a ton of TV, but I have seen plenty of anti-Obama ads from McCain people and plenty of pro-Obama ads. I don't think I've seen one pro-McCain ad, just anti-Obama, pro-Obama, and anti-McCain. I hear lots of pro-Obama ads on the radio.

[1corona4u]

8. Florida, and I've only seen Obama ads for the last month.

[PermanentRevolution]

18. Same here - Miami

Haven't seen a McCain ad in weeks.

[1corona4u]

20. I really think mccrap gave up...

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[soccermomforobama]

9. North Texas and the Obama ad telling the difference in

his tax plan and McCain's tax plan has been in very high rotation. His healthcare one has been playing also.

[OKNancy]

12. Northeast Oklahoma

same one here. The tax comparison one.

[3waygeek]

11. In Metro Atlanta, I'm seeing McCain ads

almost exclusively; mostly the "Ambition" ad over the last few days. Saw my first (and so far) only Obama ad yesterday. Then again, I watch almost no network TV -- the closest I get is KO & Rachel.

[jberryhill]

13. Philly area

Seeing lots of "Girls Gone Wild" ads.

[BumRushDaShow]

19. What is the "Girls Gone Wild" ad? I don't watch much network here in Philly

as I mostly listen to the radio... But I have heard only 3 McPalin radio ads (stem cell, taxes, and just this morning, the Ayers one), but lots of rotation for Obama radio ads - including 2 different stem cell ones, a pro-choice one, healthcare one, the Iraqi Ferris wheel... And on cable, I just saw the Obama astronaut one last night for the first time. Before that, there were probably a dozen other TV ones, running the gamut from taxes to healthcare to a variety with the theme of McPalin and Bush being the same. McPalin ran a couple over the past month on cable, which were probably nationwide buys.

[msongs]

14. in california its mostly vote yes on proposition h8te ads run by America's favorite religion nt

[terrya]

15. Chicago - I've seen a lot of Obama ads airing on WGN. Talking about his health care plan.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

16. Portland, Oregon

where John McCain campaigned at the hotel near the airport, not even daring to enter "Little Beirut" as George Bush Sr. dubbed us.

Repug Senator Gordon Smith's ads: attacks and cheap shots over the past several weeks, but the backlash hasn't been kind to him. Sprinkled with bipartisan ads featuring Smith's crossing the aisle with Obama, Ted Kennedy, etc. Smith speaks a moderate line but like McCain has voted 95% with BushCo. His senate seat is in serious jeopardy.

Dem challenger Jeff Merkley has mostly been counting on the help of DNC and other orgs for ads. His own ads tend to showplace him as a working family dude, while other Dem ads supporting him are much more on the attack: Smith's tax breaks for Big Oil and US companies that outsource, gutting of family services, even his purchase of a 1.2 million-dollar set of antique golf clubs. They haven't even touched on his hypocrisy regarding immigration (Smith owns a big food processing company that employs migrant laborers of questionable documentation).

McCain hasn't spent much in Oregon. His ads have been almost universally attack-oriented. We have been spared some of his uglier ad statements because he gave up on Oregon some time ago.

Obama has thusly been able to roll out ads covering issues. The campaign has the luxury of considerably more optimistic and forward-thinking ads.

Additionally, the Unions and anti-Union forces have been sparring over the Employee Free Choice Act. Anti-Union ads are laughably acted and come across as skits on MadTV.

[TankLV]

17. Vegas - only see the repuke "Terrorist" ads every ten minutes on CNN...

all day long, with maybe one obama ad every couple hours or so...

it's really disgusting...