Spin Cycle

The Politico draws our attention to the above PSA, which is one of three similar "public service" ads being launched by a group called Women's Voices, Women Vote to urge unmarried women to register and vote. The ads feature women (some celebrities) in an office that looks suspiciously like ... an Oval Office.

There is, of course, a real woman running for the real Oval Office -- New York's Sen. Hillary Clinton. So we decided to check the group's website. And it turns out that WVWV -- a non-profit 501(c)(3) -- has some Clinton ties. Former Clinton White House chief of staff John Podesta is on the board of directors. Former Hillary Clinton chief of staff Maggie Williams is listed as part of the "leadership team." So is Pat Griffin, Clinton's former WH chief of legislative affairs.

What a coincidence!!!!!

The group's president, Page Gardner, tells us that the ads are not some secret effort to put Hillary in the actual Oval Office. Griffin and Williams help exclusively on organizational matters, and Podesta is involved not to help Clinton but to -- like Gardner -- "help people who don't have a voice in our democracy get a voice." He's an "old friend" she said.

The group, she says, was first formed in 2004. Spots that year featured Jennifer Aniston and Helen Hunt. While this is the first year spots have featured women in an Oval Office, previous spots -- before Hillary was running -- have urged women to make their voices heard in the selection of who will sit in the Oval Office.

Unmarried women, Gardner said, are the fastest growing demographic group in the country: "They don't feel politicians give a hoot about their issues. Putting a woman in the oval office was a visual representation of the power of their voices. I don't care who is in the oval office. What we care about is that more and more unmarried women register and make their voices heard. It is to make sure that these women are empowered....This is about women who are voters, this is not a candidate driven activity.”

And again: “It can be Hillary Clinton, it can be Fred Thompson, these women need to have their voices heard."

Here's another one (or you can go here to see all three). Fred Thompson? Hmmm: