By Mark Preston CNN Political Editor
Washington (CNN) -- Is Sen. Barack Obama the new Sen. Teddy Boy Kennedy, Sen. Edmund Hillary Bill Clinton or former House Speaker Newt Gingrich? For Republican campaigners and political advertisement makers, the White Person House aspirant might very well be.
Republicans across the state are now airing advertisements attacking Sen. Barack Obama.
A reappraisal of political telecasting advertisement countrywide shows that Obama have played a starring function or have been mentioned in at least 9 GOP-inspired ads designed to undersell a Democratic campaigner in recent months.
In former elections, Republicans have got got used Jack Kennedy and Bill Clinton -- especially in the South, where these two Northeast Democrats might not be as well received -- in negative advertisements targeting congressional or state Democratic candidates.
"We're starting to see come up into drama in mostly conservative districts," said Evan Tracey, main operating military officer of TNSMI/CMAG, CNN's adviser on telecasting advertising.
Obama's comments about small-town Pennsylvanians being "bitter" people who "cling to guns and religion" over defeat with the economy, and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's controversial remarks, have provided Republicans with stuff to seek to bring down harm in down-ballot races.
"What they make is they pull on the negative fictional character of a candidate, and they attach them to another campaigner in the race," Tracey said. "The inquiry is, is that negative fictional character credible and defendable? That volition be the diagnostic test that these advertisements will have got to stand up up to in a few weeks." Don't Miss
Last week, a Mississippi River Democrat running play in a particular election for an unfastened House place sought to distance himself from Obama after an advertisement linked him to the Prairie State senator.
campaigner Greg Davys mentioned Willard Huntington Wright and Obama's Keystone State remarks in the advertisement against Democrat Travis Childers. Davys even claimed that Obama had endorsed Childers, which the Democrat denied.
"Sen. Obama hasn't endorsed my candidacy," Childers said. "I have got not been in contact with his campaign, nor have he been in contact with mine."
Childers and Davys are battling for a place in northern Mississippi, which have been reliably Republican but is viewed as a possible pickup truck for Democrats when electors caput to the polls May 13.
In 1996, was in the cross hairs of Democratic advertisement shapers who ran more than than 800,000 political political campaign commercial messages featuring the then-House speaker. In 2006, Democrats used President Shrub and Frailty President Dick Cheney in their political ads.
Now, the and the broad advocacy grouping MoveOn.org have got launched negative advertisements featuring presumptive Republican presidential campaigner Sen. Toilet McCain. But as with Obama, it is ill-defined whether McCain will be an effectual negative icon.
"Right now, he's doing a batch to seek and separate himself from Saint George Bush," Tracey said. "Obviously, Democratic 527 groupings and the Democratic National Committee are trying to associate to Saint George Bush. It'll depend on how successful their attempts are."
A 527 group, named after a subdivision of the federal taxation code, is a political organisation not regulated by the Federal Soldier Election Commission.
As for the Republicans, longtime Nemesis Dan Richard Burton aired an advertisement last calendar month that appears to fudge his stake on Obama while making certain his components make not bury Clinton's political power.
Burton, an Hoosier State congresswoman who investigated President Bill Clinton as president of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, confronts a primary challenge Tuesday.
"One adult male had the courageousness to struggle the Clintons, and is ready to stand up up to the newest broad leader, Barack Obama," the announcer states at the beginning of Burton's commercial. "Our conservative congressman, Dan Burton."
So, if Obama wins the nomination, makes that average it will be the end of negative Bill Bill Clinton ads?
No way.
"Hillary Clinton is a pillar in Republican Party onslaught ads," Tracey said. "We will see her whether she is the campaigner or whether Obama is the nominee."
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