Foxboy Wrote:Well, given that at least one county-level post had the same candidate for both parties, like it has for the past 10 years.... No negative ad there.
Well, I did say "national office". We had plenty of lower-level posts that only had one candidate too*, but that's not quite the same. (And if "same candidate for both parties" means something different than "only one party fielded a candidate", that sounds like a bit of a story.)
*I was a bit surprised by the number of state senate races that were like this. But I guess with how they have county-by-county voter registration demographics, I guess there's places no one feels it's worth the effort to run as a given party. It seemed kind of weird though that the Republican-only ones were all towards the beginning of the list, and the Democrat-only ones were mostly towards the end.
Quote:The "Political Action Campaigns" that were placing ads in support of "Anybody but an Obama crony. I don't care if they've voted against anything he's introduced. They're the blue side, they're a CRONY."
Don't know if I recall any with exactly that format. The ones that really stood out to me were probably:
-"Beware, this candidate is receiving campaign money from rich out-of-state interests! This ad paid for by a rich out-of-state interest."
-"Issue A is important! Our guy is better on Issue A! Vote our guy! Funded by the Committee For Entirely Different Issue B, Who Don't Really Give A Crap About Issue A."
-"Music of Doom! Candidates name! Music of Doom! They're awesome! Music of Dooooom! Vote for them! Signed, people who like this candidate." Uh, did you really think the music of doom made sense for a candidate supporting someone? Every time I heard it, I thought it was going to be an attack ad.
-Morgan. If the Democrats aren't the senate majority anymore, do they have to transfer ownership of the "Senate Majority PAC" name?