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Barack Obama Radio Ad for Creigh Deeds

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

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UPDATE: Hotline On Call has more:
Starting today, the Deeds camp will begin running radio commercials on African American stations in Richmond, Roanoke and Hampton Roads featuring audio gleaned from Obama's speech at an 8/6 Deeds rally in the NoVA town of McLean.

The ad calls Deeds "a trailblazer," an "advocate" and suggests he's "cut from the same cloth" as Obama, using clips from the speech (for the record, when Obama used the "cut from the same cloth" line at the McLean event he was referring to Deeds and ex-Gov./Sen. Mark Warner, not himself -- but Obama did suggest that he and Deeds brought similar qualities to governing in other sections of the speech.)

Throughout the summer, Deeds has struggled to capture excitement among VA's black population...