John McCain is borrowing from Bill Graham.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee uses footage of a gas pump from an 2006 ad by Graham's N.C. Conservatives United, which campaigned to cap the state's gas tax.

Both ads blame Democrats for high gas prices. The McCain ad attacks presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama for his opposition to offshore drilling, while the Graham ad argues the state's Democratic leaders weren't doing enough on the gas tax.

McCain and Graham have both used Strategic Perception, a Hollywood-based ad production company.

It's not the first time that the two candidates have had similar thoughts.

The presidential nominee argued for limiting a federal gas tax over the summer to help with rising gas prices.

Hat Tip: David Ingram

A former consultant to U.S. Sen. John McCain is working for Bill Graham.

According to the Hotline blog of the National Journal, the Arizona senator's former chief creative consultant, Fred Davis, is working on Graham's bid for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.

In addition, he is working on U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole's re-election bid, as well as Senate races in Tennessee and Oklahoma in 2008. He worked for the Bush campaign in 2004.

Davis' Hollywood-based media firm, Strategic Perception, made television ads for Graham's N.C. Conservatives United advocacy group last year in its campaign to cap the gas tax.

His firm has also signed up to help with U2 frontman Bono's anti-poverty ONE campaign.