This was cute and appealing. Although I don't know that McCain even know what the word straight even means since his campaign spends so much time zig-zagging.

Working America, the political arm of the AFL-CIO, keeps up the economic assault on John McCain with another huge, hard-hitting mailing targeting the battleground states (click to enlarge): Also, in an interesting experiment, the AFL-CIO tells me that they'll be emailing this video out to a list that includes thousands of Republicans and Independents in the swing states -- "a persuasion piece," as AFL spokesperson Steve Smith puts it.The thing to keep in mind is that the ratcheted up activity by the big unions is driven partly by the fact that their own internal polling indicates that the race is much more volatile in the battlegrounds than public polls suggest, and that low-info voters there tend to be surprised when they learn the truth about McCain's economic proposals. Late Update: The mail piece is going out to more than a million swing-state households, and the vid is the first in a three part series.