New McCain Ad: Obama Worked With A Terrorist The McCain campaign has a new TV ad hammering Barack Obama for his past associations with Bill Ayers. Check it out:"When convenient, he worked with terrorist Bill Ayers. When discovered, he lied," the announcer says. Much like the Web ad from yesterday, the syntax here appears to suggest that the two of them worked together on terrorism, rather than an education foundation that Obama chaired and Ayers served on.Obama In Ohio, Biden In Missouri Barack Obama is in Ohio today, with a 9:40 a.m. ET rally in Chillicothe, and an early afternoon rally in Columbus. Joe Biden is in Missouri, with an 12:30 p.m. ET rally in Springfield.McCain In Wisconsin And Minnesota, Palin In Ohio And Pennsylvania John McCain is campaigning today in Wisconsin and Minnesota, two Dem-leaning swing states where he's fallen way behind in the recent polls. McCain has an 11 a.m. ET rally in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and a 5 p.m. ET rally in Lakeville, Minnesota. Sarah Palin is touring through Ohio and Pennsylvania, which are both slipping away from the GOP ticket, with events in Cincinnati, Cleveland and Pittsburgh.Obama: I Assumed Ayers Was Rehabilitated In an interview with Michael Smerconish, Barack Obama said that he had begun working Bill Ayers on the Annenberg education project under innocent circumstances. "Ultimately, I ended up learning about the fact that he had engaged in this reprehensible act 40 years ago," Obama said, "but I was eight years old at the time and I assumed that he had been rehabilitated."GOP Pollster: Obama Up In Florida And Ohio A new pair of polls from Strategic Vision (R) gives Barack Obama the lead in both Florida and Ohio. In Florida: Obama 52%, McCain 44%, outside of the ±3% margin of error. In Ohio: Obama 48%, McCain 46%, within the ±3% margin of error.More Polls Put Obama Up In North Carolina Two new polls are showing Obama ahead in North Carolina, which hasn't voted Democratic since Jimmy Carter was the South's favorite son in 1976. From...
The Arizonan’s camp takes their attacks on Obama’s associations to the next level by putting Ayers up on the airwaves. “Obama’s blind ambition. When convenient, he worked with terrorist Bill Ayers. When discovered, he lied.”Also blames Obama and “congressional liberals” for the economic crisis.Watch it above. Read script here. Campaign says it will be “televised nationally.” Amount and length of buy TBD.