US voters on battle of the airwaves

Presidential candidate Barack Obama has reached out to US voters in a half-hour, prime-time TV advertisement.

Mr Obama can afford to buy the airtime due to his fundraising advantage. John McCain is limited in the amount of money he can spend because he opted to accept federal funds.

Here Republican and Democratic voters share their views on the commercial and the Democrats' advertising advantage.

Obama's ability to control his message has been a real problem for McCain

I thought the broadcast was brilliant. It was heartfelt, even emotional

Obama cynically breached his promise to accept public funding in this campaign

Barack Obama's half-hour spot was very impressive, but I have some small problems with it

The commercial could give Senator McCain a jump in the polls as everyone loves the underdog

The video was so slick it could have been orchestrated by Republican tactician Karl Rove

Obama's half-hour advertisement has lessened my opinion of him

The commercial was a contrived attempt to manipulate voters' emotions. It didn't work on me

The readers' panel has been selected from as wide a cross-section of people as possible and may not be representative of wider US public opinion.

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