The Vorlon
Vorlon
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Political Matrix
E: 8.00, S: -4.21
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« on: January 26, 2005, 04:28:33 PM » |
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There were no "great" ads in 2004, nothing on the same level as say "Mornng in America" from 1984, or "Daisy" from 1964.
There we not even any "killer" attack ads like Willie Horton 1988 or "Tutus" (1994 Pennsylvania Senate Race)
Taken individually I thought Kerry's ads were slighly better than Bush's, but that Bush's adds taken collectively were better than the sum total of Kerry's ads, in the sense that all the Bush ads had the same message (Kerry is a tax raising, flip flopping soft on Terror Taxachusetts Liberal) while Kerry's ads were a little less focused.
Kerry also, ironically (at least in my opinion), was actually hurt by the sheer vast volumn of anti-bush 527 ads. MoveOn, MediaFund, ACT, CBS News Goergo Soros, Hollywood and assorted other Democratic front groups spent +/- $250 million proclaiming the Bush was the anti-christ, kicked his dog, bit off the heads of small children, was in kahoots with the 9/11 terrorists as a ploy to brainwash the population, was a closet neo-nazi, etc... So much of the anti-Bush stuff was sooooo over the top that the reasonable anti-bush stuff got lost in the backwash as it were.
Overall grade :
Bush ads C,
Kerry Ads D+
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