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By anamariecox | November 19, 2007 | +

Best campaign ad of the cycle.

I’m out with McCain and his staff in New Hampshire (more on that later). After we watched this on the bus, Mark McKinnon — one of his ad gurus — simply said, “I bow to them.”

(It’s worth noting that Huckabee HAD to make a great ad, since I don’t think he has the money to put the spot up with the aggressiveness he needs to make more progress in Iowa. This ad — one of the few designed to go viral that WILL go viral — doesn’t need an ad buy to be seen. However, how many Republican caucus goers (average age: 50) in Iowa are avid YouTubers?)

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