Geez, I don't know about where you live, but it's barely into October and political ads dominate my TV. I know my market has two competitive* House races, a competitive* Senate, every State-level statewide position is being held, various competitive races for the state legislature and some local races. It just seems like every commercial is a political ad.
The Republicans in my area of using their little children in their ads. I find that ridiculous. The there is this one where Mike DeWine's** grown daughter is talking about how great her dad is like she is some how impartial.
Another big thing they're doing this year is talking about how they voted to cut their own pay or will cut their pay once elected. That's totally ridiculous. Congress always raises its own pay. Only those in competitive races say 'they voted to cut pay,' which doesn't matter because virtually no congressional seats are competitive, so the vote is always overwhelmingly for pay raises.
There also has been some passively racist ads in the race for Treasurer.
Loads of other super negative ads too.
Here's my summary of the different party's angles.
Republicans: Big government, incumbents, wasteful spending, stimulus bad/didn't create jobs***, private sector good
Democrats: Republicans like free trade, free trade bad/job killing, George W. Bush.
Thanks for reading. I can't wait for it to come to an end.
-Michael
*Competitive is being generous. The Democrats are going to get murked this election. I think the Republicans may run the table here.
**What an asshole
***That is so amazingly bullshit though. The stimulus has created tons of jobs. Things would be much worse without it.
We get lots of WV political ads down here. The theme seems to be distancing oneself from or just plain old trashing Obama. It is sad. Thank goodness most of the TV I watch is on the DVR- hooray for fast forward!
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