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Monday, June 9, 2008
Eye on Ohio: “Safe” ad for John McCain
McCain ad talks about war and keeping our country safe.
THE AD: “Safe,” 30-seconds.
WHERE TO SEE IT: It began airing on Ohio television stations on Friday, June 6.
SCRIPT: John McCain speaking: “Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war. When I was 5 years old, my father left for war. My grandfather came home from war and died the next day. I was shot down over Vietnam and spent five years as a POW. Some of the friends I served with never came home. I hate war. And I know how terrible its costs are. I’m running for president to keep the country I love safe.
I’m John McCain, and I approve this message.”
VIDEO: Stark but more visually compelling than some earlier and more stylized McCain commercials, the spot features the candidate speaking directly to the camera against a black background, with the left side of his face in shadow, while somber string music plays. A series of black-and-white historical photos fade in around him, of his father, grandfather, the wreckage of a fighter plane and McCain as a prisoner of war.
Full-screen color footage follows of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial by night, with the floodlit Washington Monument in the background. Beneath it is the text, “Military images do not imply endorsement by DOD (Department of Defense) or service branch.”
It returns to McCain speaking and closes with a color still photo of him.
ANALYSIS: The first TV ad released since McCain knew with certainty who his Democratic opponent in November will be, it makes a personal pitch emphasizing his military and national security experience, an area in which he has claimed an advantage over Barack Obama. Focused on image and character, its stress on how much he knows about war and its costs works to counter hawkish impressions left by his support of the Iraq war.
Tom Feran is a reporter at The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer. E-mail: tferan@plaind.com.
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TweetMcCain plans two-day Ohio campaign swing in June
Republican John McCain will be in Ohio on June 26-27 to campaign and raise money, former U.S. Sen. Mike DeWine of Cedarville said.
There will be a fundraiser in Cincinnati on June 26 and two more fundraisers the next day, at noon in Youngstown and in the evening in Cleveland, DeWine said on Monday, June 9.
Public events also are expected to be held both days, DeWine, chairman of McCain’s Ohio campaign, said.
The fundraisers are among six planned so far for the summer as McCain, the Arizona senator, and Democrat Barack Obama carry the presidential campaign into Ohio. McCain fundraisers also are planned for: Canton on July 24; Dublin, a Columbus suburb, on Aug. 6 and at Four Bridges County Club in Butler County on Aug, 7, said DeWine.
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TweetSchuring and Canton: a Dangerous Combination?
One of the hot congressional races in Ohio right now is the race for the 16th congressional seat, now held by Rep. Ralph Regula, R-Navarre. That race will see state Sen. Kirk Schuring, a Republican, against state Sen. John Boccieri in a northeast Ohio district covering all or parts of six counties.
Schuring, alas, has spurred some criticism thanks to some comments he made about Canton:
The Ohio Democratic Party leapt on the comments, calling them them “ugly” and “divisive” to the people he hopes to represent.
“It is appalling to witness Kirk Schuring speaking with such venom and disdain toward the very individuals he is seeking to represent in Congress,” said Ohio Democratic Party Communications Director Alex Goepfert.
We have a call in to Schuring, and we’ll get post his comments as soon as we get them.
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TweetDeWine won’t run for AG
Former U.S. senator Mike DeWine said Monday June 9 that he will not run for Ohio attorney general and instead will focus on Republican John McCain’s presidential campaign in Ohio.
“You know, this was a tough decision for me. I think I would have enjoyed very much being attorney general and I would’ve been good at it and cleaned up the messes,” DeWine said.
He declined to endorse a fellow party member for the race, saying the GOP has a number of good prospects, including county prosecutors with strong law enforcement backgrounds. “It is a very winnable race for Republicans. People will see we need a watchdog in the attorney general’s office.”
Ohio voters will hold a special election in November to pick an attorney general to replace Democrat Marc Dann, who resigned May 14 amid a sexual harassment scandal. Gov. Ted Strickland appointed Nancy Hardin Rogers to serve as attorney general in the meantime.
The Ohio GOP and Ohio Democratic Party are expected to name their attorney general candidates later this month.
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TweetStrickland guru to become Obama guru
Gov. Ted Strickland, once Sen. Hillary Clinton’s top Ohio backer, and Sen. Barack Obama may really be joining forces.
Aaron Pickrell, who managed Strickland’s successful 2006 race for governor, is going to manage Obama’s presidential campaign in Ohio. Pickrell is expected to leave his current job as chief operating officer in the governor’s office at the end of the week, Strickland’s office said on Monday, June 9.
Democrat Strickland used an 88-county approach to campaigning to clobber Republican Ken Blackwell in the governor’s race. With Pickrell helping call the shots, Obama’s Ohio campaign is likely to hunt for votes all across the state rather than concentrate solely on Democratic strongholds.
Strickland endorsed Obama for president after Clinton ended her campaign for the Democratic nomination.
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TweetOhioans sour on Bush, economy
Ohioans don’t much care for the job President Bush is doing and they’re gloomy about the chances for Ohio’s economy to improve.
Those are two key findings in a new Ohio Poll, released on Monday, June 9.
The statewide poll, sponsored by the University of Cincinnati, put Republican Bush’s approval rating at 29 percent. Also, 79 percent say they think Ohio’s economic conditions are getting worse.
Gov. Ted Strickland, a Democrat, has an overall job approval rating of 61 percent in the poll but just 51 percent approve of his handling of the economy.
One trouble spot for Strickland: just 47 percent of blacks approve of how he’s handling his job, compared to 63 percent of whites.
The poll was conducted between May 16 and Wednesday, June 4, with the exception of Memorial Day, May 26, with 1,340 adults and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.7 percent.
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