Oops…a typo.
Sorry!
Oops…a typo.
Sorry!
I’m on the Obama mail list, and, hafta say, they really jumped on this last McCain “Celebrity” ad with aplomb: well worded counterpoint, and running Obama’s response ad in a window with the page you could donate. I did, counting that donation as a spike “vote” against the negative ads.
That’s a new technique, but an important one .
Finally! A kindred spirit!
Long have I yearned to meet someone else who has a keyboard where the ‘S’ and ‘B’ keys are close enough together to render typos possible.
A typo are you sure? It appears more like a Freudian slip to me and I suspect others.
There are many people who post their opinions on the Web whose B and S keys are practically Siamese twins.
Well sure. Why not?
I think people here are more against the tactic of attack such that the message matters less than the accusation. Nevermind if the attack is blatantly inaccurate or false. Just smear your opponent and hope something sticks.
That it has proven in the past to be an effective tactic does not alter our collective distaste for it.
So yeah, we’ll call bullshit when we see it.
If there was any merit to the “compare how they’re organizing and commanding their campaigns” argument that popped up during the Obama/Clinton primary, it seems similarly applicable here.
Say… You don’t happen to work at Fox News by any chance?
By the time November comes around, gas prices will be down, the housing market will be rebounding, and people will have time to be concerned about the black terrorist about to take over their country again. The McCain ads will work.
Well, Obama’s campaign is reporting that they had 100,000 contributions made on Thursday, a third of which came from new donors. The average donation in June was $68 (the month of Obama’s donation drought) but that’d still be $6.8mil taken in yesterday largely on the strength of McCain’s ads.
So I guess McCain’s strategy worked for something.
After learning that the average June donation was $68, I made a few donations in July of $68.08. When I find out the average donation amount for July, I’ll adjust the dollars accordingly.
My mistake above. May was Obama’s dry month. In June he was back up over $50mil.
I recommend the linked article “The Low-Road Warrior” by John Heilman in New York Magazine. He’s got some very cogent points here, and its not real long, or anything.
I agree that they may work better if the economy picks up. Big if, though.
Man, if you can’t get your own mother behind ya…
Maybe she can pinch his ear and get that boy back in line
McCain’s attack strategy paying dividends.
In every election there is an outcry over negative campaigning. It is juvenile and dishonest, and yet it almost always works.
I want to meet a voter that changed his mind because of the Britney ad, just so I can kick him in the nuts.
Oh man, am I glad you don’t have my job. I meet those voters every day. It takes some willpower, let me tell ya.