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Hard-Hitting Union Mail Blitz Directly Blames McCain For Meltdown
A scorching new mailer from AFSCME keeps up labor's economic assault on John McCain, directly blaming McCain and Bush for presiding over "the greatest financial meltdown since the Great Depression."...
The AFSCME official who sent us the mail piece says it'll be dropped today on undecided and swing households in 17 battleground states. Another forthcoming AFSCME mailer hitting McCain on health care is after the jump.
Meanwhile, in other outside-group news, Catholics United has a very interesting new mail piece that pushes a liberal pro-life vision that espouses improved health care and education, among other things. We're told it will go out to targeted Catholic households in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
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Not to be frivolous, but that's really nice graphic design. Go, unions!
October 15, 2008 2:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not frivolous at all. Anyone who thinks the labor movement doesn't have its political and communications acts together hasn't been paying attention.
October 15, 2008 2:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Seconded.
That shot of the Capitol with the scorched-looking ground and the ominous sky - absolutely striking.
Very nice work (I'm a graphic designer, too).
October 15, 2008 2:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Beautiful work.
I don't think it's frivolous. Striking, attractive pieces like this really get people to take notice, rather than the usual mailers which get discarded immediately.
October 15, 2008 4:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Looks like a movie poster. I think using the "movie font" helps.
October 15, 2008 4:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thirded. Scorched sky, ominous.
Has a sort of Left Behind feel to it.
October 15, 2008 3:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Finally, someone acknowledging that being pro-life isn't really about abortion. The Bishop of Abuja recently made the same connection, but unfortunately he doesn't vote in American elections.
October 15, 2008 2:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama's supporters are part of the Culture of a Quality Life.
October 15, 2008 2:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
In other news on the subject of Catholics United, I had to take my son to the pediatrician's this morning, and this took me past a highway billboard by Catholics United which urged us all to "Vote Jobs in 2008." I had never heard of this group before, but I will have to look into it.
October 15, 2008 2:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
I thought the part about the whale was a little over the top, but the ashes and sackcloth thing was pretty emotionally gripping. All in all, a nice little read.
Wait, what?
October 15, 2008 3:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
How exactly do they identify the
"Swing" households . I have always wondered about polls, swing, undecided voters. I have voted in every election, served on jury duty, been involved in lots of activities and I have never been polled, called, or considered a "swing" voter. A Swinger for sure but......never a swing voter.
October 15, 2008 2:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Way to go, AFSCME. This is the only way to neutralize the McSleaze/PaLie-n.
October 15, 2008 2:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Obama campaign continues to amaze me.
Holding back the 527 type ads til now.
October 15, 2008 2:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Go AFSCME! Here's another AFSCME ad that I think carries a really important message this election season -- a message with a lot of swearing in it.
October 15, 2008 2:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
OT: Matt Taibbi and Byron York discuss the financial crisis, and Taibbi reveals York for the moron he is.
York runs away.
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/10/matt_taibbi_and_byron_york_but.html
October 15, 2008 3:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why don't we have CNN coverage of Alaska Independence Party and Palin's terrorism here at TPM?
Check out at DKos:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/14/151519/61/145/630389
October 15, 2008 3:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Everytime I go to update my profile, beta kicks me out and makes me sign up all over again. What's going on?!
October 15, 2008 3:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank goodness for the trade unions and their members. You truly rock!
October 15, 2008 4:44 PM | Reply | Permalink