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From NBC’s Domenico Montanaro Clinton is up with an ad in West Virginia in addition to the one in Oregon we reported on yesterday. It’s entitled “Level” and is an appeal to working-class voters. Clinton is heavily favored to win in West Virginia and Kentucky where the demographics favor her because of the large number of white working-class voters.
McCain is also up with an ad, his second in the battleground state of Iowa...
Script for "Accountable": JOHN MCCAIN: The great goal is to get the American economy running at full strength again -- creating the opportunities Americans expect and the jobs Americans need.
From NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli
From NBC's Domenico Montanaro
ANNCR: “A war that should never have been waged. An economy in turmoil. Record prices at the pump. America held hostage to foreign oil. And what does Hillary Clinton offer us? More of the same old negative politics. Her hometown newspaper says she's taking the low road -- her attacks do nothing but harm. The same old Washington politics won't fix our problems. We need honest answers... And a president we can trust.
From NBC's Domenico Montanaro
Here's the script for "What's Happened?"ANNCR: What has happened to Barack Obama?
From NBC's Mark Murray
The script...Announcer: "More 'low road' attacks from Hillary Clinton…Now she’s pushing a 'bogus' gas tax gimmick… Experts say it’ll just 'boost oil industry profits'... They’ll 'simply raise prices and pocket … the difference.' Clinton aides admit it won’t do much for you – but would help her politically. So here’s the choice…Clinton gimmicks that help big oil… Or Barack Obama… a real energy plan and a $1,000 middle class tax cut to help families truly pay the bills."
From NBC's Domenico Montanaro Obama is up with his two-minute closers in Indiana and
North Carolina . They are basically the same ad with some tailored language to each state.
Indiana:
From NBC/NJ's Adam Aigner-Treworgy and NBC's Domenico Montanaro McCain is going up with this ad on health care in Ohio, per the campaign.
Here's the script:
JOHN MCCAIN: I'm John McCain and I approved this message.
There's many, many solutions to this problem.
ANNCR: Bold solutions for America's health care mess.
Straight talk to provide portable, affordable health care.
Require millionaires to get off prescription drug subsidies.
End junk lawsuits that tax consumers.
Lower prescription drug prices through importation programs.
Bold new solutions. Not tired old politics.
From NBC's Mark Murray Obama -- playing the outsider card -- criticized the Clinton's and McCain's plan for a gas-tax holiday. "Now, the two Washington candidates in the race have been attacking me because I don't support their idea," he said today, per advanced remarks. "In fact, yesterday Senator Clinton demanded that everyone go on the record on this issue. She even borrowed one of President Bush's favorite phrases, and said that every member of Congress had to tell her -- 'are they with us or against us?'"
"Well, folks have been weighing in. And you know what? It turns out that people want to be on the side of the American people -- they don't want to be for something that is such an obvious election year gimmick; they don't want to line up behind an idea that's more about trying to get a few votes than getting you meaningful relief."
More: "Senator Clinton does have some support for her plan in Congress. After all, the person who first proposed it was John McCain. So I guess when she says 'are you with us or against us' -- Senator Clinton is referring to her and John McCain. That's one vote she's got, because on this issue, Hillary Clinton and John McCain are reading from the same political playbook."
Also, here's a new TV on this subject the Obama campaign is airing in Indiana:
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From NBC's Domenico Montanaro Clinton is up with a new ad in North Carolina featuring a glowing recommendation from North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley , who recently endorsed the New York senator.
Here’s the script for the 30-second ad, "Determined":
She is so resilient, so determined. She knows how to deliver. She'll be a great president.
CLINTON: I'm Hillary Clinton and I approved this message.
From NBC's Mark Murray TV ad by the Democratic National Committee whacking McCain on the Iraq war.
The ad -- which the DNC said it will air on MSNBC and CNN -- hits McCain for his past statement that he would be fine with US soldiers remaining in Iraq for "maybe 100" years. McCain did say that, but as the RNC and other fact-checkers have pointed out, it was in the context of talking about a peace-keeping force in Iraq after the violence there had ended.
The RNC also charged that the DNC and the Obama and Clinton were coordinating with each other (by sharing similar pollsters and polling firms and having meetings), and that made this new TV ad illegal.
DNC spokeswoman Stacie Paxton tells First Read that: "1) we used McCain's own words and 2) there has been no coordination. These are just baseless claims -- we obviously struck a nerve." The DNC will elaborate on those arguments in its own conference call later this afternoon.
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"He is completely out of touch with where the American people are on the war," Dean said, later saying: "There is nothing false about this at all... [These are] John McCain's own words... You are going to see a lot of this kind of stuff."
Also on the DNC call, general counsel Joe Sandler said the RNC's claim of coordination between the DNC and the Democratic presidential campaigns is "completely baseless." And he noted that there was no indication from MSNBC and CNN that they would NOT air the ad.
