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 Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 4:41 am Post subject: WaPo: "Big Punches for The Closing Rounds" |
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Here's WaPo's take on the next SVPT ad......
| Quote: | Big Punches for The Closing Rounds
By Jim VandeHei
The Washington Post
Sunday, October 10, 2004; Page A06
Democrats and Republicans are going for the throat in the final weeks of the campaign.
Striking a negative and personal tone, political operatives supporting John F. Kerry and President Bush, but not working on the campaign payrolls, are planning to flood television and radio stations with hard-hitting attack ads to try to sway voters in swing states.
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which says it has raised more than $13 million for its anti-Kerry campaign, much of it from small donors, is planning one final ad featuring more Vietnam veterans criticizing the Democratic nominee's military service and honesty, says one official with the group.
The Progress for America Voter Fund, which is partly financed by some of Bush's biggest donors, has raised more than $30 million. One of its ads suggests Kerry can't defend against terrorists "who want to kill us." It shows images of Osama bin Laden and the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel recently reported that the group has laid down nearly $2 million for the final month in Wisconsin alone, according to a survey of television stations in the state.
Not to be outdone, the Media Fund, a well-financed Democratic group, is emptying the final $6.5 million from its bank account and spending it all on one hard-hitting television ad accusing Bush of being cozy with the Saudi royal family. It will air in Wisconsin, Florida and Ohio. "I realize this sounds breathless, but, in short, these are perhaps the most powerful, effective ads ever tested," the Media Fund's Jim Jordan says.
The cultural war will heat up, too. Former presidential candidate Gary Bauer is raising money to continue an ad campaign in Michigan and Pennsylvania bashing Kerry as "too liberal" on same-sex marriage; at the same time, Focus on the Family, a socially conservative group, is running 30-minute public service announcements on scores of Hispanic radio and television stations telling Americans to vote their values when it comes to abortion and same-sex marriage. "This is evangelical outreach to Hispanics," says group spokeswoman Kristi Hamrick.
The Service Employees International Union is planning to run Spanish-language television ads on the minimum wage, health care and jobs starting Monday in Florida's three biggest markets. The union says it spent $65 million on this election, almost all of it to pay and train Democrats to get Democrats to the polls.
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