US auto workers launch $3 mln ad campaign for Obama

[UpInArms]

Source: Reuters

DETROIT, Oct 7 (Reuters) - The United Auto Workers union launched a $3 million advertising campaign on Tuesday to spur Democrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign, with less than a month to the U.S. election on Nov. 4.

The ads, which feature UAW members talking about lost health care benefits and the loss of manufacturing jobs, will run on television, radio and Web sites in the key manufacturing states of Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

More than half of the one million active and retired members of the UAW live in one of those four states, which are U.S. auto manufacturing hubs. All four states are in play in the election, UAW President Ron Gettelfinger told reporters.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain said last week that he will pull his campaign organization out of Michigan, a union stronghold of the auto industry.

A new Washington Post-ABC News poll also has put Obama 6 percentage points ahead in Ohio, another key state for auto producers that is seeing some of the highest unemployment rates in the nation.

Gettelfinger said the ads are being placed where they will make the biggest impact.

"Let me be clear, we are not letting our guard down in Michigan in any way whatsoever," Gettelfinger said. "We do not believe that he has actually pulled out of Michigan. We are going to stay on guard."

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[Bozita]

1. I just saw one of the ads on Detroit teevee. It's absolutely KILLER stuff!

[MadMaddie]

2. Oh dear couldn't have come at a worse time for McCain!

3 million in ads 4 weeks before the election and on top of that he got his ass kicked in one of his townhalls!

[jacobfloyd]

3. G A M E O V E R ! ! !

mccain :spank: obama

[JimDandy]

4. THIS was probably why McCain pulled out.

He knew these ads were coming.