Friends (2008)

It all started with a simple warning and Freedom's Defense Fund's willingness to say what the political establishment would not. "You should know who Barack Obama's Friends Are." This series of ads ran thousands of times in Macomb County, the swing county filled with Reagan democrats in what could have been a battleground state. When John McCain pulled out of Michigan, we stayed in Macomb County. The result - above the fold coverage in the New York Times, national media attention for our organization and Barack Obama performing 3.1 percent better in Republican Oakland County than he did in Democrat controlled Macomb County. Thanks for getting it started.