The TV blitz is part of a Democratic strategy to target opposition candidates in 2008.

By Kevin Diaz, Star Tribune

WASHINGTON - Congressional Democrats, poised for a fresh legislative battle over Iraq, are mounting a new television ad campaign today targeting Sen. Norm Coleman’s past votes supporting President Bush on the war.
The new ad completes a one-two punch against the Minnesota Republican, who is already the target of a separate TV ad this week sponsored by the national antiwar group Americans United for Change.

The escalating ad buys are part of a national strategy keying on Democrats’ major targets in the 2008 congressional elections in a time of declining public support for the war.

The ad blitz also coincides with votes in the House and Senate on a defense policy bill that Democrats intend to turn into a forum for a series of troop withdrawal measures

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