That’ll Leave a Mark

11 Comments

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   centerfielddj on November 6, 2015 at 9:11 pm

   “David Vitter chose prostitutes over patriots.”

   The attack is executed with this particularly well-assembled sentence.

   I’m looking forward to Election Day.

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     esquimaux on November 6, 2015 at 9:51 pm

     isn’t that a great line?

     more good coverage of this election at dkos
     http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/11/07/1446209/-Loosiana-Dispatch-Rabid-Republicans-About-to-Cruci
     fy-One-of-Their-Own
     with another good line

     >>as the Baton Rouge Advocate’s James Gill wrote earlier this week, “to know Vitter is to loath him.”

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     Cervants on November 7, 2015 at 10:33 am

     The call of doodoo.

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   SirLurksAlot on November 6, 2015 at 9:52 pm

   bodyslam from the third turnbuckle. lovin it

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   Phil Perspective on November 6, 2015 at 10:27 pm

   This is the best political ad since Sestak’s one lowering the boom on Snarlin’ Arlen’s political career.

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   bento on November 7, 2015 at 1:11 am

   They don’t mention the diaper. I’m supposing it’s so well-known in the state that they don’t have to? Say “Vitter prostitute” and everyone thinks diaper?  (I mean, I do, but I follow politics. OTOH, it’s not my state). If so, brilliantly understated. Otherwise, just understated.

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   TarheelDem on November 7, 2015 at 9:51 am

   Before getting too ecstatic, remember that it’s Louisiana and it’s 2015.  David Vitter could still get elected.

   The idea that advertising conquers all is something that Democrats are going to have to disabuse themselves of.  It leads to lazy political action.

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     hawesg on November 7, 2015 at 10:53 am

     Excellent point.  As Kentucky amply demonstrates, the main thing that matters is “what team you’re on.”  Loyalty to Team Red trumps (ahem) any sense of self-interest or hope for decent governance.

     We saw it in Kansas, we saw it in Kentucky, and there’s a decent chance we see it in Louisiana.

     Great attack ads won’t restore the Democratic party in Congress.  Great organizing and mobilization might.

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     Marie3 on November 7, 2015 at 12:00 pm

     True, but I’m hard pressed to recall a similarly true, hard-hitting, and devastating ad like this one.  (Okay, the “daisy ad,” but as few people saw it, it ended up being a word-of-mouth jaw-dropper.)

     I’m also reasonably certain that the 1994 “morph” ads were highly effective, and it’s reasonably certain that Howard Dean was mugged in Iowa from the one-two punch of the “Americans for Jobs & Healthcare” OBL ads and “Club for Growth” “latte-drinking ad.  

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     on November 8, 2015 at 7:30 am

     News flash – in the end Republicans vote for Republicans and Democrats vote for Democrats.

     See the polling in 2014 (eg Kansas) and the polling in Kentucky recently.

     There has not been a lot of polling from known pollsters, and while the lead here is bigger than in Kentucky, Edwards still hovers around 50.

     I completely agree with you about TV advertising.  The idea there is some magic bullet to be had through it strikes me as fantasy.  

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   RT on November 9, 2015 at 2:43 pm

   I could see Republicans saying: “Vote for the john. It’s important.”