It'll Rot Your Brain: Campaign Ads Thread

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

... what.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Where on earth did the GOP get the impression that anyone cares/knows who Nancy Pelosi is?

It's a midterm election, where you have a much higher information voter showing up at the polls. The people the ad is targeting know who Nancy Pelosi is. And they're pretty sure they don't like her.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Where on earth did the GOP get the impression that anyone cares/knows who Nancy Pelosi is?

It's a midterm election, where you have a much higher information voter showing up at the polls. The people the ad is targeting know who Nancy Pelosi is. And they're pretty sure they don't like her.

Anyone who knows who Nancy Pelosi is will make up their own mind without a TV ad influencing them.

If that's the case, then Democrats are severely fuggled in those yellow dog districts they're targeting.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Where on earth did the GOP get the impression that anyone cares/knows who Nancy Pelosi is?

It's a midterm election, where you have a much higher information voter showing up at the polls. The people the ad is targeting know who Nancy Pelosi is. And they're pretty sure they don't like her.

Anyone who knows who Nancy Pelosi is will make up their own mind without a TV ad influencing them.

If that's the case, then Democrats are severely fucked in those yellow dog districts they're targeting.

Or you're vastly overestimating how much the average voter knows about national politics.

I think you're the one vastly underestimating how much the average midterm voter knows about national politics.

You don't think they run these huge ad buys without doing messaging polls first, do you?

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Sounds like an alternative coffee shop. Organic fair-trade beans only! Served in compostable cups!

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Meek goes "in for the kill" to steal Politico's assessment of the ad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN7ZQDqzaOg

Should ensure that Meek gets 2nd place, though I doubt it gets him to first.

Does he even have money to air it?

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Brutal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3Q1I9PrxtE4

That looks like the exact type of ad I'd expect out of a campaign that's down by 8 with no real idea how to close the gap.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Okay, um, wow. Christine O'Donnell is up on the air: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxJyPsmEask&feature=player_embedded

"I'm not a witch, I'm nothing you've heard. I'm you."

...yeah.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Okay, um, wow. Christine O'Donnell is up on the air: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxJyPsmEask&feature=player_embedded

"I'm not a witch, I'm nothing you've heard. I'm you."

...yeah.

Not the worst thing in the world to personify her and make her seem human after all these stories, even if what she was saying is awkward and flat

Are we watching the same commercial? She doesn't come across as human in that ad at all.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Okay, rewatching, it's a bit creepy


Buuuuuuuut, there are some smart notes to the ad.  Like note the beginning hook, "I'm not a witch" -- that's both an attention grabber [important] and a strawman for her to defeat in the next 25 seconds.  That's professional work and thought process.  They know some people have heard "Christine O'Donnell" and "witch" in the same sentence, so they can victimize her by pretending that she's currently being called a witch.

She's relatively likable on TV, she comes across much more affable than a lot of other mainstream politicians this cycle, even though she says some crazy things.  The "I'm one of you" catchphrase is, eh, interesting, but they worked that message into the ad.

Oh, if I was designing the ad, I'd have taken a swing at the "witch" charge too. It may have been more effective, though, with a bit of "Steele" light-heartedness.

The ad could have done two jobs at once: imply that the other charges against her are as ridiculous and irrelevant as the witch one, and given the Dems a black eye for their desire to talk about witchcraft and masturbation through fifteen-year-old sound bites rather than the actual problems of 2010 (of which there are so many). Instead, given her delivery, I don't think it even did one.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

You knew it was coming: The "Blumenthal bungles the jobs question" ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovIBLQyl7HE&feature=player_embedded

I think it could be effective, though probably not 10 points' worth of effective.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

That's the ad of a desperate campaign right there.