Campaign Attack Ads: As Old As the Edsel
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 12th, 2010 4:31 am by HL
Campaign Attack Ads: As Old As the Edsel
Walter Shapiro, Politics Daily
It has been lost in the mists of political history, but a 10-second clip from the 1956 presidential campaign is America's forgotten film classic, the primitive black-and-white precursor of the modern TV attack ad.Cynically exploiting the fears raised by popular President Dwight Eisenhower's heart attack, the cash-strapped Adlai Stevenson campaign aimed its TV arrows at Ike's gutter-fighting vice president. The brief commercial begins with a grainy photograph of a callow-looking Richard Nixon while an off-screen male announcer asks, “Nervous about Nixon? President…
Obama and the Coming “Choice Election”
Noam Scheiber, New Republic
Mike Allen reports in his “White House Mindmeld” today that Obama is settling into a “choice election” strategy for November (i.e., trying to make it as much about the other guys as you) rather than a “referendum election” strategy (i.e., making it solely about you):Setting aside the fact that this is almost always the strategy employed by incumbents when times are tough (see “George W. Bush, re-election of”) it strikes me as a particularly good approach this time out. All the more so if one of the choices is going to be the previous…
Dem Governors Point Finger at D.C.
Jonathan Martin, Politico
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Thinking Big: The GOP and Paul Ryan
Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard
For Republicans, the Road Map authored by congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin is the most important proposal in domestic policy since Ronald Reagan embraced supply side economics in the 1980 presidential campaign. It’s not only the freshest, boldest, and most comprehensive Republican thinking, it’s also the most relevant. If Republicans adopt the Road Map as their basic ideological blueprint, it offers them the prospect of a landslide in the midterm election this year, followed by victory in the presidential election in 2012.For sure, that’s a lot of weight…
