WASHINGTON (AP) — A powerful service workers union backing Democrat Barack Obama started a $2.1 million ad campaign Sunday that attacks Republican John McCain on the economy.
The Service Employees International Union is running a TV commercial in six states that could be competitive in the presidential election: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Mexico, Wisconsin and Iowa. The union's efforts are independent of Obama's presidential campaign, but
the ad strikes many of the same themes.
"Our effort with this ad is to put (the campaign) back on the economic issues," Anna Burger, the union's secretary-treasurer, said in a conference call with reporters. "When you talk to voters about what they care about, they care about the economy."
The ad was released on the same day the Obama campaign started running a commercial saying a McCain administration would be run by lobbyists, part of a long-running debate about which campaign has closer ties to lobbyists.
The union ad shows a family talking about how they have been hurt by the nation's struggling economy, followed by abbreviated versions of two oft-cited quotes from McCain, the Republican nominee for president.
"John McCain said, 'I know a lot less about economics. I still need to be educated,' " an announcer says in the ad. "No wonder he said we're better off than we were eight years ago. It's time for change."
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