McCain Hits Obama on Taxes in Spanish

John McCain is continuing his tax-based assault on Barack Obama, now in Spanish.

McCain’s campaign this afternoon released a Spanish-language radio ad to air in Colorado, Florida, Nevada, and New Mexico, in which a narrator tells listeners (as translated) that an Obama presidency would bring “painful” new taxes on “income, electricity, small businesses, seniors, your life savings, your family.”

The Spanish-speaking narrator assumes a middle-class audience, as she says Obama has a history of raising taxes “even on hard-working people like us making $42,000 a year.” That claim references Obama’s vote for a budget resolution that, according to FactCheck.org, would have effectively raised taxes on individuals making as little as $41,500 by allowing President Bush’s tax cuts to expire.

McCain has aggressively courted the Hispanic vote with a series of Spanish ads in Florida and western states, though Obama holds a 66 percent to 23 percent lead among th group, according to a Pew Research Center poll released in late July.

Listen to the ad here.