{"id":3363,"date":"2008-06-09T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/06\/no-break-in-the-action-new-tv-ads-up-in-n-m\/"},"modified":"2008-06-09T00:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T06:10:00","slug":"no-break-in-the-action-new-tv-ads-up-in-n-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/06\/no-break-in-the-action-new-tv-ads-up-in-n-m\/","title":{"rendered":"No break in the action: New TV ads up in N.M."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It appears <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New   Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> will get no break between the primary and general elections this year, with Republican presidential nominee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmccain.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">John McCain<\/a> and a special-interest group that is targeting the U.S. Senate race both currently running TV ads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Here\u2019s McCain\u2019s new ad, which is running in several battleground states, including <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New   Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><object width=\"420\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/J1OUxBvlLr0&amp;hl=en\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/J1OUxBvlLr0&amp;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The ad tries to sell McCain as someone who has a deep understanding of and hates war and as someone who, in his own words, is \u201crunning for president to keep this country safe.\u201d The pro-Iraq war McCain has already said his campaign\u2019s success will be decided by whether he can convince the American people that he\u2019s right about <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Iraq<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In addition, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defendersactionfund.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund<\/a> is running an ad attacking Republican U.S. Senate candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peopleforpearce.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Pearce<\/a>. Here it is:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><object width=\"420\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/a8rL-4yV4cM&amp;hl=en\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/a8rL-4yV4cM&amp;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The ad attempts to link Pearce to President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/president\" target=\"_blank\">Bush<\/a>, saying both have supported oil companies while Americans have had to deal with record gas prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cCall Steve Pearce and tell him we need lower fuel costs, not more support for George Bush and Big Oil,\u201d the ad\u2019s narrator states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears New Mexico will get no break between the primary and general elections this year, with Republican presidential nominee John McCain and a special-interest group that is targeting the U.S. Senate race both currently running TV ads. Here\u2019s McCain\u2019s new ad, which is running in several battleground states, including New Mexico: The ad tries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}