The election was over the minute I saw this ad on tv. Ideology aside, this is the best political ad I have ever seen. Pure demographic genius.
With all due respect, this doesn’t seem much different than most pro-candidate ads.
I have to agree with Velocity. What’s the message? Abbott’s family loves him. I sort of assume that’s true for every candidate.
My takeaway from that ad was that Abbott must have run some other campaign ads where he offered some good reasons why Texans should vote for him.
*blah blah blah MADRINA blah blah GODMOTHER blah blah blah CHURCH
*
Madrina - Hispanics
Godmother - Family Values
Church - Christians
In one sentence the game was won. 5 seconds. There is no message, it is demographic buzzwords spouted by a cute old lady in a plausible narrative. Genius.
Wow, a Texan Republican appealing to Hispanic Christian family values voters. What a daring and original idea.
Here’s a thought. Maybe for his next campaign, he can show a flag waving. Or maybe have him petting a dog.
Seriously, this is about as bland and stereotypical as a campaign ad can get. I don’t see why you feel it’s impressive. Abbott could afford to run meaningless ads like this because he’s had a huge lead over Davis for weeks.
The best campaign ad I ever saw was one by Jerry Brown, when he won the governorship of California recently. All he did was show a clip from his opponent saying something like “When I came to California, it was a land of opportunity”, or something like that, and then pointed out that when his opponent came to California, Brown was governor.
Too funny. That definitely sounds like something Brown would come up with.
I’ll admit to a fondness for the Mike Huckabee Chuck Norris ad.
Did Abbott win the Hispanic vote?
I’d say that was because he was 1) running in Texas, 2) Republican, and 3) alive.
By this logic, why do Democrats ever lose governorships in blue states?
Let’s see, tons of fluff by a family member and zero policy statements. Yep, this ad totally stands out from the other 20,000 ads that were run during the last election.
Even sight unseen, that’s fucking brilliant.
I’ll have to dig that up on YouTube sometime - I’m sure it’s there. (I’d do it now, but I can’t view stuff on YouTube from work.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEPlZYp5-Pk There you go.
Perhaps because Democratic voters are not quite so inflexibly partisan as Pubs. Perhaps because Texas is sui generis, being the reddest of all red states, or nearly so.
Yeah, that’s why Abbott won the election. That ad may be why he won the Republican primary.
I can’t remember whether it was playing then or not… I was mostly trying to tune out all the political ads, including the abysmally stupid Dan Patrick and Glenn Hegar ones.
Heh… right, just because he’s Republican, why would he ignore the reality of Texas and what it takes to win votes. And especially if he’s not trying to run for President soon – wasn’t Rick Perry hammered by other Republicans for being “soft” on immigration issues, during his brief run?
I would say that, in order, the reasons are his being
- Republican
- white
- running in Texas
- alive
How do Republicans win governorships in blue states? They run in midterm presidential years and they aren’t batshit crazy (Scott Walker excepted).
How about that, an appeal to Christianity. I wonder why nobody else ever thought of that.
This is a state that elected George W. Bush twice and followed that electoral brilliance by giving Rick Dingbat Perry three terms.
Is the concept here that Hispanics are so dumb they’ll go rushing to vote for Abbott because this “Madrina” loves him so much. This thread might have made more sense if it was about an underdog candidate.