Discussion for article #228363
Excellent. Seems to me that while the repukster GOPERs are out there screaming their bloody heads off and making ridiculous statements from A-Z, the dems are working behind the scenes to get their candidates elected.
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Ernst polls ahead? Sounds like the chickens are going to vote for Colonel Sanders.
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Probably should have done this months ago…maybe too late now.
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Ok…so she is trying to hide her position on personhood. The ad should have also mentioned Agenda 21, no minimum wage, and a couple other extreme Bircher positions she holds dear to her heart. Show her for the extremist she is…GO WHOLE HOG ON "ER
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“It’s a Man’s World”
Joni Ernst running as a bubba named Johnny Earl.
Someone should ask Ms. Ernst if, under her “Personhood amendment”, due diligence would compel local law enforcement all across America to investigate alleged miscarriages as potential crimes to be “punished”.
And if not, why not?
I think the GOP base deserves answers on an issue so fundamentally important to them.
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Am I the only one who thinks these overly dramatic ads have been long overplayed and only turn people off? Or are they still effective?
Seems to me that if I were trying to appeal to swing voters in Iowa, I’d go with a typical Iowan explaining what Ernst’s crazy position is, rather than trying to portray her as evil; since I suspect people like her personally and might be turned off by demonization. Particularly as this technique is so often used to overstate minor issues, so people automatically assume the claims in the ads are false. Am I giving people too much credit?
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Unfortunately, yes. I think they turn off people like us who read about this stuff daily, but we don’t really need TV commercials to tell us about the candidates. They’ve not really for us. They’re for the people who watch a lot of TV and are adept at tuning out when the commercial break begins. I don’t watch much TV, so I’m captivated (and usually insulted) by commercials. I have some family on the other hand who watch TV every day. They’re so experienced that they automatically stop paying attention during the commercial breaks and wonder why I get so worked up about them. It takes a captivating, nearly over-the-top political ad to get people to absorb the message.
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Thats Chicken Voter Fraud!!! Do they have government ID??? Time to question Republicans about that chicken registration drive!
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It’s a good ad----but it doesn’t go half far enough.
Ernst is a closet fascist RWNJ, and she needs to be exposed.
They should do another ad–say on her opposition to minimum wage or her support for Paul Ryan’s Medicare voucher plan----every week.
Bury her in facts and make her have to explain—because if she’s explaining, she’s losing.
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I like the term Bircher…less words, easier to type, says it all.
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I don’t know. Maybe. I just think that voters see so many of these over the top ads that they tune them out as well, and just assume that they’re lies.
And if anything, the way they work best is if the viewer tunes them out but still subconsciously associates the politician with the evil music and images portrayed. But then it doesn’t really matter what the content is, which is totally how Republicans use them. They know people tune them out, but just want voters to associate their opponent’s name with negative music and a mean voice.
That’s how we’ve ended up in a post-policy world, where it doesn’t matter what you say or do, but only how you say it.
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More please.
Better yet build a time machine and go back and start running these ads 4 months ago.
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Yes, but is it blistering? Merely torching isn’t enough.
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I think she’s much worse than a mere Bircher—although she is Bircher crazy.
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Worse than a Bircher…let me fathom that…thats getting close to pure evil
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Bingo!!
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Have no fear! Politifact to the rescue! “Half True” because something something false equivalence.
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These people just want to ban abortions so there’s more babies to eat.
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