Obama Warns Republicans About Critical Ads
Townhall
By Charles Babington
Perhaps no one took greater comfort in the Republican Party’s third straight loss of a long-held House seat this week than Barack Obama, who says the results point to clear limits in the effectiveness of attack ads he expects this fall.
The Democratic presidential candidate played a prominent role in all three special elections to fill vacant GOP seats, and he landed on the winning side each time.
Obama practically dared Republican congressional candidates to keep linking their Democratic opponents to him.
“The same kinds of tactics that the Republican Party has been employing over the last several election cycles just aren’t going to work this time,” he told reporters on his charter plane after receiving former rival John Edwards’ endorsement Wednesday. “I mean, they did everything they could, right? They ran Wright. They ran Obama. In Louisiana, they ran Pelosi. The same way that in previous election cycles they had run Hillary or other folks they thought would scare off voters. It didn’t work.”
Obama said Americans want “change in this election,” and they especially care about health care, jobs, gasoline prices, college affordability and the Iraq war.
