Political Ads Tailored to Local Issues
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In West Virginia mine country, television ads say President Bush has "broken his promise to invest in coal." In Wisconsin, voters see spots saying the factory state "has lost 84,000 manufacturing jobs" under the Republican. And Florida's large retiree population gets a commercial that claims Bush's policies have "banned Americans from buying low-cost drugs from Canada."
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The producer of ads featuring PC users who switched to Macs is applying the same tactic to political commercials. This time, he'll focus on former backers of President Bush, recruited online, who've changed their political allegiance. By Louise Witt.
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A gift of free air time to GOP candidates from a Fresno-area broadcaster drew challenges on several fronts Thursday, as Democrats tried to stop the ads from running in key areas before Tuesday's election.
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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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She and other presidential candidates have been visiting this locale lately in search of donors.
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A campaign for sunglasses carries a theme â âNever hideâ â that seems counterintuitive when you consider the product.
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Two old sayings are colliding in the presidential campaign, and there's some truth to both of them. Politics is dirty. Midwesterners are nice.
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Just about everybody wants to have their say in this presidential election. From evangelical preachers who claim "God is not a Republican or a Democrat" to the anti-abortion Catholics Against Kerry, political advertising by smaller groups, and individuals in some cases, is popping up across the country.
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The Bush and Kerry campaigns, along with a range of advocacy groups, are concerned with the integrity of voting technology -- particularly in the states where votes matter most. By Jacob Ogles.
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Candidates are touting their political independence, blaming incumbents for high gas prices and warning moderate voters of a possible liberal takeover of Congress in a current wave of advertising that is revealing some themes for the final weeks before Election Day.
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Choosing a theme song for a political  campaign may sound fun but can produce plenty of sour notes.
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Details of a television ad released Thursday by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign.
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The good citizens of Iowa are getting an eyeful and an earful of political ads these days, far more than before, even for one of the epicenters of presidential politics.
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By Lisa Vorderbrueggen, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Feb. 1--Billboards along commuter routes in eastern Contra Costa County and a companion Web site calling environmental groups "radicals" have generated several hundred e-mails to local elected leaders.
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Several newspapers made endorsements Sunday in the presidential race.
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From Berlin to London to Jakarta, the destinies of U.S. candidates have become home-town news in a way that most political commentators cannot recall.
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Sure, the presidential candidates have their talking points on taxes, their policies on poverty, their white papers on war. But look beyond those top-tier issues and voters can find the eclectic ideas that reflect candidates' particular passions, their attention to the arcane, sometimes their outsized expectations.