{"id":3488,"date":"2008-07-23T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/07\/obama-campaign-unveils-spanish-language-radio-ad\/"},"modified":"2008-07-23T11:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T17:10:00","slug":"obama-campaign-unveils-spanish-language-radio-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/07\/obama-campaign-unveils-spanish-language-radio-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama campaign unveils Spanish-language radio ad"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama<\/a> is out today with his first Spanish-language radio ad, a personal look at his life in which he aims to relate to Hispanic voters. <\/p>\n

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\u201cSome people have power and connections. But most of us have to make our own way through life. This is true even for the man who could become the next president, Barack Obama,\u201d the ad\u2019s narrator says in Spanish. \u201cHe grew up without a father — raised by his mother with the support of his grandparents. Through student loans and hard work, he graduated from college.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cObama never forgot his roots. He worked with churches to help families get job training and after-school care for their children. In the state Senate, he passed a law that helped reduce the welfare roles by over 80 percent by helping families to secure jobs,\u201d the narrator states. \u201cAnd despite the political pressure, Obama has stood with us for immigration reform and spoke out for our veterans.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s time we had a president who understands we all deserve a chance to make our own way,\u201d the narrator says.<\/p>\n

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You can listen to the ad, which is airing in New Mexico<\/st1:state>, Colorado<\/st1:state>, Nevada<\/st1:state> and Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>, by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Obama\u2019s first ad aimed at Hispanics follows a volley of ads from Republican presidential candidate John McCain. Earlier this month, McCain unveiled an English-language television ad<\/a> targeting Hispanics. McCain began airing his first Spanish-language radio ad<\/a> in New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> and other states in June and unveiled his second<\/a> at the beginning of July.<\/p>\n

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Obama deputy campaign manager Steve Hildebrand said on a conference call with reporters today that the campaign \u201cwill have a very strong presence on both Spanish-speaking and English-speaking airwaves (targeting the Hispanic community) between now and the end, a constant presence.\u201d<\/p>\n

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And U.S. Rep. Xavier Becerra<\/a>, D-Calif., said on the call that there\u2019s a big difference between McCain\u2019s TV ad and Obama\u2019s new radio ad.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSen. McCain\u2019s ad speaks to Latinos. I think Sen. Obama\u2019s ad is part of us and speaks with us because he talks about how, from birth to the present, Barack\u2019s experiences have been our experiences,\u201d Becerra said.<\/p>\n

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Still, Becerra conceded that McCain\u2019s TV ad, in which he talks about Hispanics as \u201cGod\u2019s children,\u201d is probably effective in getting Hispanics to consider the GOP candidate. However, he said, when they take a close look at the records of Obama and McCain, they\u2019ll find a big difference and support Obama — a claim that is backed up by independent polls that show Obama with a wide lead over McCain among Hispanics.<\/p>\n

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Hildebrand said Obama \u201chas fought for comprehensive immigration reform and never walked away from it.\u201d That\u2019s been a sticking point in the election: McCain was one of the leaders of last year\u2019s failed attempt at comprehensive reform. McCain now says that, because he doesn\u2019t believe Congress will approve comprehensive reform, he supports securing the border first and then tackling other reforms.<\/p>\n

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Obama has accused McCain of turning his back on comprehensive reform. McCain, meanwhile, says Obama supported extremist amendments that helped kill the comprehensive-reform bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is out today with his first Spanish-language radio ad, a personal look at his life in which he aims to relate to Hispanic voters. \u201cSome people have power and connections. But most of us have to make our own way through life. This is true even for the man who […]<\/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-3488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488","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=3488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}