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10.07am: Not to be outdone in the ad wars, the Obama campaign is going after Mitt Romney on student loans.
"Romney's budget plan cuts Pell grants and locks in higher student loan rates," the new ad says. It's part of team Obama's Mitt Romney v Reality series. Ads in the series use the same blue background and logo and draw heavily on footage from the primary campaign. The tone of the ads is straightforward, point-counterpoint – not quite professorial, but appealing to voters' logic as opposed to the emotion or fear centers in the voter brain.
9.37am: Karl Rove's Super Pac, American Crossroads, has released an entertaining ad called Cool. As anti-Obama videos go, this one is way more fun than that Santorum fright-wig nightmare Obamaville thing.9.37am: Karl Rove's Super Pac, American Crossroads, has released an entertaining ad called Cool. As anti-Obama videos go, this one is way more fun than that Santorum fright-wig nightmare Obamaville thing.
Cool strings together clips of the president being cool: wearing 3-D glasses, drinking a beer, singing Al Green, dancing with Ellen DeGeneres (cool!). The tag line is, "After four years of a celebrity president, is your life any better?"Cool strings together clips of the president being cool: wearing 3-D glasses, drinking a beer, singing Al Green, dancing with Ellen DeGeneres (cool!). The tag line is, "After four years of a celebrity president, is your life any better?"
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9.15am: Good morning and welcome to our Thursday live blog coverage of American politics. Tom McCarthy here in New York wearing the blogger helmet (it's soundproof but you can sort of see out of it) this morning, and here's a summary of where things stand.9.15am: Good morning and welcome to our Thursday live blog coverage of American politics. Tom McCarthy here in New York wearing the blogger helmet (it's soundproof but you can sort of see out of it) this morning, and here's a summary of where things stand.
• 'Obama to kick off campaign in – where else – Ohio.' That's the world-weary headline the Cincinnati Enquirer has attached to its coverage of the Obama campaign announcement last night that the juggernaut will roll out with campaign rallies May 5 in Columbus and Richmond, Va.• 'Obama to kick off campaign in – where else – Ohio.' That's the world-weary headline the Cincinnati Enquirer has attached to its coverage of the Obama campaign announcement last night that the juggernaut will roll out with campaign rallies May 5 in Columbus and Richmond, Va.
• Vice-president Joe Biden speaks this morning at NYU on foreign policy. He will argue that the Obama administration has done a good job. We'll be watching, 10.30am ET. Should provide an interesting contrast with Sen. Marco Rubio's Brookings speech yesterday, which, by the way, the New Yorker's Ryan Lizza thought was "notable for its civility and relative policy heft."• Vice-president Joe Biden speaks this morning at NYU on foreign policy. He will argue that the Obama administration has done a good job. We'll be watching, 10.30am ET. Should provide an interesting contrast with Sen. Marco Rubio's Brookings speech yesterday, which, by the way, the New Yorker's Ryan Lizza thought was "notable for its civility and relative policy heft."
• There's a new poll out from a major news organization showing Barack Obama with a favorability rating among Americans (+2) that is five points better than rival Mitt Romney's (-3). But it's a Fox poll, so they're probably just trying to make the president look bad.• There's a new poll out from a major news organization showing Barack Obama with a favorability rating among Americans (+2) that is five points better than rival Mitt Romney's (-3). But it's a Fox poll, so they're probably just trying to make the president look bad.