The Central Tabulator

Huffington Post

Seth Colter Walls

August 20, 2008 10:20 AM

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Early on Wednesday morning, both Barack Obama and John McCain released ads focused on taxes. If the tone of both spots proved predictable, the amount of money being pushed into each campaign’s ad was not. Though McCain has outspent Obama on paid media in battleground states so far this month, Obama’s new television ad will start getting pumped into several key states today — specifically, Colorado, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Virginia.

By contrast, McCain’s new piece is a radio ad, and his campaign has declined to reveal exactly how hard or in what parts of the country it will be pushed.

Entitled “Three Times,” Obama’s ad promises middle-class tax relief, contrasting the Illinois Senator’s plan with McCain’s tax breaks for large corporations. Source Article