TITLE: "Machine"
LENGTH: 30 seconds
AIRING: New Hampshire
SCRIPT: Announcer: "Here they go again — the same old Republican attack machine is back. Why? Maybe it's because they know that there's one candidate with the strength and experience to get us out of Iraq. One candidate who will end tax giveaways for the big corporations. One candidate committed to cutting the huge Republican deficit. One candidate who will put government back to work for the middle class. The strength to fight, the experience to lead."
KEY IMAGES: The ad begins with a screen showing brief cuts of anti-Clinton ads from Republican rivals John McCain and Mitt Romney. The clips play under the title "The Republican Attack Machine" and then moves to images of McCain's and Romney's faces. Later images include Clinton giving speeches, greeting voters, and a young girl holding a pro-Clinton sign as she sits on a man's shoulders.
ANALYSIS: The ad airs as Republicans increasingly have been using Clinton as a political foil. Republican Rudy Giuliani joked at her expense Friday in a speech before the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group. In a speech in New Hampshire on Sunday, McCain cast himself as the Republican best able to defeat Clinton in a general election.
Romney has run ads in New Hampshire saying Clinton has no experience as an executive and compares her White House years as first lady to that of an intern. McCain has run ads in New Hampshire criticizing Clinton's attempt as New York senator to get $1 million in federal money for a Woodstock museum in Bethel, N.Y., to commemorate the 1969 rock festival.
The Clinton camp is running a different ad in Iowa that features a testimonial from a father whose son received a bone marrow transplant after he said her Senate office intervened and helped. "I trusted this woman to save my son's life. And she did," the father says.
The two ads underscore the different challenges facing Clinton in each state. In Iowa, where she is in a virtual three-way tie with Democrats Barack Obama and John Edwards, a recent New York Times poll showed that nearly half of voters believe she has a tendency to say what people want to hear rather than what she believes.
In New Hampshire, where she leads Obama by double digits, voters are more likely to believe she is being sincere, the poll found. By drawing a contrast with Republicans, Clinton's latest ad may also resonate with independent voters who can vote in New Hampshire's primary.
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Analysis by Associated Press Writer Jim Kuhnhenn
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