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Close your eyes for a minute and fast forward to October. And imagine yourself sitting in a Charlotte hotel room watching TV. And this ad comes on: “Kay Hagan voted for Obamacare, a law whose rollout was so botched that a million people decided to not even sign up for health coverage. And the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office says Obamacare will cost America 2 million jobs. Kay Hagan voted wrong. Now it’s time to vote her out.” That’s a VERY tough hit on any Democratic incumbent who voted for the Affordable Care Act.
…RUN THAT PUPPY. Run a version in every state with a Democratic incumbent. It’s not the Holy Grail, but as written it’s danged useable. I might suggest we also try a version that ends with If you like your Senator, you can keep your Senator… but that’s just me.
Thanks, Chris Cillizza!
Moe Lane
I think, Moe, that your ending is marginally too far inside baseball .. Joe Sixpack isn’t gonna remember the lie quite well enough for it to be recognized.
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That said, it would certainly work well as an ad buy on sites libtards visit .. *they* will remember the lie .. but the trouble is it’d mean giving money to Markos et al.
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Mew
They are working on an ad very close to this, I’m sure.
Yeah, and I am sure that as soon as the RSCC sees it, it will be banned as being too mean spirited. I can’t see either the National Party or any State Party allowing it because it will distract from the real campaign issue: Amnesty.
Actually, Dr. Monica Wehby is already experimenting with a variant of this in the OR-SEN race:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mby6IZcIT2Y
…and I believe that the NRSC is coalescing around her as their favored candidate.
Also, a variant of this is being used to hammer Shaheen in New Hampshire:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYyMMs-WO4U
Independent group, but that’s what they’re for and those are the races where I’d be trying out ad strategies.