I <3 Negative Campaigning
Rob Long ·
Oct 7, 2010 at 11:29pm
This is a pretty good negative spot. It does a lot of things at once: it eviscerates the opponent, it elevates his challenger (she appears likable and reasonable) and it ends with a kicker. Makes me think Sharron Angle is going to win:
Negative campaigning works. And when it's done well -- like any other form of campaigning -- it's actually edifying. When people complain about negative campaigning, usually it means it's working.
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Re: I <3 Negative Campaigning
I like it. A candidate willing to intimate that her opponent supports child molestation will clearly be a formidable negotiator in office.
May '10
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To put herself over the hump, she needs to squeeze in the "You can literally smell the tourists" line.
But not at the expense of the shadowy alien in the wife-beater t-shirt or the horny sex offender.
Edited on Oct 8, 2010 at 3:18amJul '10
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Reid is definitely hard up for votes.
Aug '10
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Excellent. He's the quintessential 'progressive'.
May '10
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Excellent - with that Viagra line, we see that Reid's monomaniacal push to get Obamacare through Congress by reconciliation has come back to, ummm, bite him.
May '10
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Meanwhile the Florida senate race is over if Rubio runs an ad showing Crist's first pitch at the Rays game last night. Please. Oh, please.
Pretty much the worst pitch ever in the whole history of pitches. Ever. In the whole history of pitches.
Jun '10
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In other news, Steven Colbert and John Stewart will be holding a rally on the Mall scheduled for October 30th, just three days before the election. A final reminder, I suppose, that the Democrats are a party of clowns.
Jun '10
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Harry Reid has produced so much material over the years, that Angle should be able to make 10 spots just like this one, but each having different Reid "moments".
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Last night, I saw Karl Rove on Greta Van Susteren and she asked him if there was anything slippery about this ad - was the viagra amendment attached to anything else, for instance. Rove slipped the question, but my memory is that Greta's right. The viagra amendment was a political move meant to bring the health care bill back to a position where it needed a two thirds vote it could no longer get. Am I wrong about this?
In any case, it was a fair hardball political move and it's a fair hardball ad. But I thought Rove - who certainly knows - should've come clean.
May '10
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I'm so thick and culturally illiterate I was still trying to figure out the significance of feeling less-than-three about something. I was halfway through a Trinitarian theology survey before the light dawned....
May '10
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I'm going to be contrarian here: the ad is not edifying at all. It is so over the top as to lose all credibility. My tendency would be to simply dismiss it out of hand. It makes Sharon Angle look unserious -- like she can't engage him on something real.
She's even afraid to state the situation clearly because then it makes the Republicans' proposing the amendment look unserious. So she says he was for something rather than saying he blocked the amendment that would have created this requirement.
There is so much that Harry Reid really believes that Nevada voters would find anathema -- why pretend as though he wants to aid sex offenders when it's obviously absurd.
She may or may not win, but if this is what puts her over the top then NV voters are morons.
Aug '10
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You're not alone. My first reaction when I saw the title out of the corner of my eye was, "Of course one is less than three!"
"<3" apparently works less well in some fonts for conveying "heart" -- for example, whatever the standard fond Ricochet is using drops the 3 a bit so it doesn't line up with the rightmost tips of the <.
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The kids love their emoticons. They love their :) and their =P and their <3. I'm just trying to stay hip and relevant.
May '10
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Trying to decide what's worse, Rob using a heart or Tommy using a winkie. Maybe we can excuse you, being in Paris, but if Claire uses =^.^=, we're gonna have to Release the Kraken on this place.
May '10
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Am I the only one who initially mistook that actress for Christine O'Donnell?
Aug '10
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Kennedy Smith
...but if Claire uses =^.^=, we're gonna have to Release the Kraken on this place. · Oct 8 at 2:07pm
But... but... Claire's a cat-addict. She can't help it. Rob is presumably not addicted to hearts, nor Tommy addicted to winkies (at least I hope not). But in Claire's case, we should show mercy, I think. After all, is =^.^= such a catastrophe?
May '10
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Me too. My first thought was, oh God in heaven not another contentious O'Donnell thread.
May '10
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Scott Reusser: Meanwhile the Florida senate race is over if Rubio runs an ad showing Crist's first pitch at the Rays game last night. Please. Oh, please.
Pretty much the worst pitch ever in the whole history of pitches. Ever. In the whole history of pitches. · Oct 8 at 5:06am
We suddenly seem to be electing politicians who have never played baseball before (Obama too). No wonder the country is in falling apart.
May '10
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Trace Urdan: I'm going to be contrarian here: the ad is not edifying at all. It is so over the top as to lose all credibility. My tendency would be to simply dismiss it out of hand. It makes Sharon Angle look unserious -- like she can't engage him on something real.
She's even afraid to state the situation clearly because then it makes the Republicans' proposing the amendment look unserious. So she says he was for something rather than saying he blocked the amendment that would have created this requirement.
There is so much that Harry Reid really believes that Nevada voters would find anathema -- why pretend as though he wants to aid sex offenders when it's obviously absurd.
She may or may not win, but if this is what puts her over the top then NV voters are morons. · Oct 8 at 7:51am
My reaction too. As I said somewhere in a previous thread long ago, I want our candidates to be serious, honest, straightforward, and not play games. We still come out on top in the debate without resorting to shenanigans.
May '10
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Mark Wilson
... As I said somewhere in a previous thread long ago, I want our candidates to be serious, honest, straightforward, and not play games. We still come out on top in the debate without resorting to shenanigans. · Oct 8 at 9:00pm
Ah yes, I remember the thread (the perfect-X graph). And like then, I'm torn because we're in a streetfight with some nasty SOB's. Where to draw the line is a tough call, though, ya, this ad may very well have crossed it.
To use a baseball analogy, I want our side steroid-free, but I'm OK with a Gaylord Perry spitball or two.
And speaking of baseball...As someone with a big ol' zipper scar on his right elbow from throwing baseballs, I couldn't agree more with your point about American politicians who have never played America's game. Time to amend the Constitution..