Democrats unleash TV attack, radio ads

[CatWoman]

GO HOWARD DEAN!!!!!

WASHINGTON - Aggressive to the end, Democrats opened two new fronts Friday in the battle for control of Congress, unleashing a costly televised attack against a Colorado Republican and airing radio ads on Christian stations favored by Republican listeners.


Republicans looked to President Bush and their proven get-out-the-vote operation to minimize their losses in next Tuesday's elections, held at a time of widespread unease with the status quo.

"It was meant to be a little on the stealth side," Democratic chairman
Howard Dean said of the radio ads, part of an attempt to appeal to conservative voters who have long backed Republicans.

The television commercial, by the party's House campaign committee, was aimed at Republican Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (news, bio, voting record), a second-term Colorado lawmaker in an unexpectedly tight race for re-election. "She works overtime for special interests," says the ad, which drew a swift rebuttal from her campaign.

"The special interests she works overtime for are her constituents — farmers, ranchers, small business owners," shot back spokesman Guy Short.

But more than the charge-countercharge, the last-minute advertising underscored the extent to which the Democrats have been on offense and the Republicans on defense in the run-up to Tuesday's elections. As many as 60 seats in the House and a half-dozen or more in the Senate remained competitive — almost all under GOP control — as Democrats sought to ride a wave of discontent with the war on Iraq to victory in the polls.

Bush campaigned without letup to prevent it.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061104/ap_on_el_ge/election_rdp

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

1. Loving me some Howard Dean. That man is a quick study.

:loveya: MKJ