What is your favorite presidential campaign commercial in 2004?

[J. J.]

The wolves. 

[J. J.]

If it wasn't for the fact that wolves don't attack humans, it would have been the most affecting to me - even though it didn't really mean much of anything.

I didn't like any because they were on so often. Any I liked I got sick of the 39th time I saw them on the first day of their airing.

As I've pointed out, my grandfather was attacked by a wolf.  Now, maybe wolves in the south of France are more aggressive than American wolves, but it happened.

[J. J.]

I think it's called "We Keep Our Promises", that Kerry ad where he shows all the clips of Bush promising to do certain things and then it scrolls over the screen what Bush actually did. Then at the end it shows a list of all of Bush's unkept promises and Kerry appears and says "We need a president who's on your side. I'm John Kerry and I approve this message."

An attack ad, but one that illustrates one of the problems with the Kerry campaign.  It never said, in effect, "Vote for me because I'll do this," and then state what "this" is.

[J. J.]

Bush wasted a lot of money here. I know from day one to the election that Kerry would win Minnesota, I never swayed from that prediction. I also believed it wouldn't be as close as most were predicting, and I was right on that too.

How much does the Minneapolis media penetrate into WI, radio and TV especially?  How dense in the population accross the state line?

[J. J.]

that's basically St. Croix and Pierce counties, which have a combined population of about 100k. Pierce voted for Kerry actually which I find kind of suprising since it was the only suburban Twin Cities county to do so, and areas that far away from the city proper are usually extremely Republican.

It will depent on the TV stations' demographics, but a lot of those ads might have aimed at WI.  In 1980, for example, I knew a lot more about Jay Rockefeller than Arlen Spector, because Rockefeller had run for Governor of W VA.  To run a TV campaign in norther WV he had to run the spots on Pittsburgh based TV stations.  I see ads here for NJ and DE governors' races, because most voters in South Jersey and north DE watch Phila stations.