{"id":2730,"date":"2010-08-31T01:39:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T08:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2730"},"modified":"2010-08-31T01:39:14","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T08:39:14","slug":"we-need-more-ads-like-this-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/31\/we-need-more-ads-like-this-now\/","title":{"rendered":"We Need More Ads Like This Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been complaining for months that my Democratic Party needs to grow a spine and fight back against deceptive Republican misinformation.  I so hope that this begins a trend.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"GOPfriends\"<\/a> Democrats’ House campaign committee is starting its first advertising blitz of the fall election cycle Tuesday with a TV spot hammering Wisconsin GOP candidate Sean Duffy, one of several Republicans who are threatening to wrest an open Democratic seat.<\/p>\n

The ad charges that Duffy, running for the Republican nomination to succeed retiring Rep. David Obey, favors privatizing Social Security<\/strong>. It’s the first salvo in what promises to be a series of highly negative ads by Democrats as they fight an uphill battle to keep control of the House in a toxic political environment.<\/p>\n

The party’s decision to air it before Labor Day reflects what strategists say privately is a calculated tactic in key districts: Blast Republican candidates early in attempts to disqualify them in voters’ eyes before they can make a case for themselves<\/font><\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I wanted to see that ad, and it wasn\u2019t too hard to find.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Bravo!  In district after district we need to get the truth out there, fast and hard hitting.  Let Republicans play defense for once!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been complaining for months that my Democratic Party needs to grow a spine and fight back against deceptive Republican misinformation.  I so hope that this begins a trend. Democrats’ House campaign committee is starting its first advertising blitz of the fall election cycle Tuesday with a TV spot hammering Wisconsin GOP candidate Sean […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}