Hillary and Barack will not be debating before Tuesday’s Wisconsin Primary but they are having a dialogue of sorts with television ads. Hillary has responded to Barack’s response ad with, yes, another ad…

The Fix has the the story and video of the ads here and writes…

It hits Obama for “hiding behind false attack ads” — a classic contrast ad tactic of “he started it” — before asserting that Obama has a health care plan that would leave 15 million people uncovered, that he “voted to pass billions in Bush giveaways to the oil companies” and that he has expressed an openness to raising the retirement age and cutting benefits to solve the Social Security shortfall.

Hillary is also running a more positive ad in the state at the same time and it prompts The Fix to ask:

The question before Clinton is whether she will be able to financially keep up this sort of dual messaging on television in far more expensive states like Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania. And, if not, which track does she choose? The positive? The contrast/negative? Or something sort of hybrid?

Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle - an Obama backer - responded to Clinton’s claim that Obama is ducking debates by reminding us that:

Doyle added that it was ridiculous for Clinton to charge that Obama was somehow hiding something from Wisconsin voters since the New York senator had yet to set foot in the state in advance of Tuesday’s primary. “[Obama] has been here day after day in community after community,” said Doyle.

Stumble it!

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