“I was never accused of having done anything wrong, but rather I was in the wrong place at the wrong time.”—Paul Davis “What’s the difference between a hooker and a politician? There’s some things a hooker just won’t do.”—an old joke I first heard from a lobbyist Regardless of your opinion on reproductive justice, single-payer… Continue reading Going Negative In The Champagne Room: 2014 Gubernatorial Edition
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Going Negative in the Champagne Room: Rick Perry Edition
As another long-term governor would say, it would seem to require a dead girl or a live boy to stop lucky Rick Perry from being elected. But one passionate Ron Paul supporter, Robert Morrow, wants so badly to find live girls who’ve slept with Perry that he placed this ad (pictured at the left in… Continue reading Going Negative in the Champagne Room: Rick Perry Edition
Going Negative In The Champagne Room Fails
Remember the worst, most offensive political ad ever made? We talked about it last month, and it seems to have helped catapult Janice Hahn right into office. Alexandra Petri’s take on why that might have been suggests (quite sensibly) that most of the eyeballs on web ads belong to young liberals:
Going Negative In The Champagne Room: California Edition
Are California Republicans around just to make us appreciate how classy Philadelphia Republican strip club-themed ads are? Maybe! This little piece of work must be a parody, because there’s no way something like this gets taken seriously for a second. They’ve edited the face of LA city council member/congressional candidate Janice Hahn onto the body… Continue reading Going Negative In The Champagne Room: California Edition
Going Negative in the Champagne Room: Sex Work in Local Campaign Ads
“I knew I was going to go negative. I had to. And part of it is because of that so-called poll. That was one of the primary reasons I had do this”