Sen. McCain's campaign released two new battleground states today, one for Michigan and the other for Ohio. They follow the same script. The narrator begins:
John McCain and his Congressional allies know it.
Why, after a week of attacking Congress, would McCain mention his "congressional allies?"
Simple reason: legally, he has to.
The ads are being financed by the Republican National Committee in conjunction with the campaign, an even split, actually, and the law -- McCain's campaign finance law -- allows this division if and only if other candidates are mentioned.
Hence: "congressional allies."
(That's one reason, as the Washington Post notes, that a lot of McCain ads contain glancing references to Democrats.)
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