david
| Thu, Oct 18, 2012
2:38 PM EST
We shouldn’t be surprised at this point, but here he goes again.
Does anyone remember the last time Scott Brown ran an ad talking about something he actually wanted to accomplish in the Senate?
Also, don’t forget this amazing response to Brown’s use of a steelworker’s suffering in his advertising.
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13 Comments . Leave a comment below.It’s long past time for the mainstream media to call out these lies for what they are. This is the proper role for the “fourth estate” — to wit, the Boston Globe, network news, and local broadcast outlets. When the mainstream media neglects its duty, the burden is placed on interested parties (like the campaign and its supporters). What should be a matter of fact becomes just another volley of he-said-she-said.
I am disgusted by the complicity of the mainstream media in Massachusetts in sucking ALL substantive content out of this important race.
This one covered in the herald:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view/20221018dem_liz_fan_surprise_star_of_browns_ad/srvc=home&position=1
according to a comment below that article. Then apparently stealthily returned it — presumably because it would expose his hypocracy after accusing Warren (wrongly) of being chummy with Travelers.
“I’m Scott Brown and I approve this message.”
You can feel the votes going away when that part is played. What is surprising is how far Brown has sunk.
This was not hard, Brown was likeable. He was attacked towards the end of the last election and people saw though that and that only made him more likeable. It seems like he’s doing the exact opposite.
I like the result. But I have no idea why they went down this road. Amazing.
so, the thinking is, keep at it to at least do some damage to Warren.
If you’ve already shot your foot off then you no longer have to worry about hitting that appendage any more.
I don’t think the votes were gone.
They surely are going, though, and seem to be being chased away.
for Warren, based on polling. Brown keeps peeing into a stiff wind, puzzled as to why he feels wet.
I guess if he were smart and well-intentioned he’d be on our side.
I have to wonder if the problem is how they expected this fight to play out. I have said consistently that Brown’s people seem obsessed with the short game, winning the news cycle that is (yesterday was only the most recent example of how that’s going). I always assumed they had a long game, too. Warren’s people, through the slog of May’s nonsense and summer of middling polls, clearly had a long game (and if the polls are right, it is working).
But Brown does not seem to have a long game. Even the People’s Pledge, which seemed like a long game strategy has become a short game one as it firmly bit them in the butt. Consequently, all they’ve got is the nasty. Let’s not kid ourselves, nasty works, but it has to have a connection to something. Brown’s campaign is run by a lot of professionals, but their skill set is Rovian, that is annihilate your opponent, while keeping the candidate acceptable. But if that doesn’t work, what are you left with? More of the same, and then you start burning through that “acceptable” (read: nice guy) capital.
When indiangate didn’t get the expected traction. Now the only tool left in the box is the candidate himself.
I’ve knocked on doors and spoken with “undecided voters”. Many of these voters simply have not been paying any attention to this election. They will only start to pay attention during the last two weeks. So, not knowing anything about either candidate, for undecided voters, Brown’s ad is probably very effective.
After all, Brown’s people are pros, who surely did focus groups and testing before they released the ad.
and set people straight. But Brown’s already fallen from a lead with this stuff. The latest polls both show Warren at 50 or higher and Brown stuck at 44. With Obama on the ballot I don’t think he’ll make a clean sweep of the undecideds.
But we’ll keep working. Making personal contact with voters and getting out the voters we know are on our side will win this one.
Remember the special election between Brown and Coakley. Three or four weeks before the election, the polls showed much larger leads for Brown.
These negative ads are effective, or Brown would not be running them.
Here’s my advice. Keep the pedal to the metal.
nt
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