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StumblePublished Friday, Dec. 7, 2007 | 3:09 p.m.
Updated Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008 | 2:14 p.m.
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod held a conference call with Nevada reporters to announce the Obama campaign is going on the air with a TV ad. They're the first to do so.
The message: Obama will fight special interests and Washington lobbyists.
A Ken Silverstein Harper's profile of Obama, which showed how comfortable he's become in the moneyed Washington culture, would seem to belie the message. Obama's team rejects this characterization and note he doesn't take money from Political Action Committees or Washington lobbyists.)
Either way, undoubtedly the ad works because they've been running it in New Hampshire and Iowa.
Axelrod, profiled in the New York Times Magazine, echoed a line we've been hearing from the campaign for months. The more voters get to know Obama, the more Hillary Clinton's lead shrinks. This has happened in Iowa and New Hampshire, and now we'll see it in Nevada, he said.
The buy will be statewide and "significant," said Axelrod.
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