Campaigns Focus on Iraq in Ads
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President Bush claims John Kerry "doesn't even know where he stands" on the war, while the Democrat accuses the Republican of having "no plan to get us out of Iraq." Television ads are setting the stage for the candidates' Thursday night debate over foreign policy.
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Between the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and a wave of retirements set to begin in just three years, ad spending on federal job recruitment is on the rise and Uncle Sam, like other marketers, is employing increasingly sophisticated tactics.
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US Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry shifts his campaign battleground towards the war Iraq.
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The Iraqi political campaign officially kicked off yesterday, colored by hope but tempered by violence that highlighted security concerns
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The rhetorical battle over Sen. John Kerry&#39;s record in Vietnam continued to rage Sunday, as Kerry&#39;s campaign released a new television ad calling on President Bush to &quot;denounce the smear.
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Democrat Barack Obama has a new ad in Iowa that seeks to distinguish him from his rivals on curbing lobbyists, improving health care and ending the war in Iraq while casting voters as the agents of change. The one-minute ad begins airing Wednesday.
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Presidential campaigns are about more than just speeches, rallies and the horse race.
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Baghdad -- Iraqis, whose lives are inundated by Arab-language satellite news channels, radio broadcasts and political newspapers, are acutely aware of the US presidential campaign raging thousands of miles away.
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President Bush's campaign acknowledged on Thursday that a television ad depicting soldiers listening to Bush speak had been doctored so that some of the faces of the soldiers appear more than once.
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The presidential campaigns and the outside groups supporting them are taking an unusually intense and confrontational advertising war into grim territory.
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Details of a television ad released Thursday by John Kerry's campaign:
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Angered by President Bush's policy  in Iraq, a group of military families whose relatives died  there is targeting the president in new television ads to be  aired ahead of the Nov. 2 election.
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This year, as usual, the dominance of attack advertisements on television has made it hard to get a clear picture of where the candidates stand.
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WASHINGTON John Kerry is using a new television ad to link the cost of the war in Iraq to problems here at home. In the ad, the Democratic presidential hopeful says the US is spending 200 (b) billion dollars
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The Bush campaign has pressed rally audiences to work as foot soldiers, before, during and immediately after Bush events.
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Testimonial ads are nothing new in the political world. High-profile surrogates or supportive celebrities often film commercials endorsing a candidate, hoping voters will follow their leads. Those have been rare this year. But quite a few ads have featured everyday Americans testifying about the state of the nation, as strategists seek to make politics &#151; and the presidential election &#151; personal through campaign commercials.
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Presidential campaigns are hoarding money for a coming advertising blitz &#151; mostly in Iowa and New Hampshire &#151; during the final three months of the year on airwaves already saturated with candidate commercials.