If recent polls are any indication, Hillary Clinton’s “red phone” commercial has had an impact on voters. Perhaps for that reason, her campaign has launched a new attack ad.

Watch it:

Obama supporter John Kerry, who, one might recall, has been on the receiving end of attack ads before, responds here to Clinton’s latest assault.

The Obama campaign reportedly came back with its own radio ads attacking Clinton for not reading the National Intelligence Estimate before the Iraq war vote.

On television, however, he took a more positive stance with this two-minute ad buy:

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