re: #197 publicityStunted

(as an aside, ABC News, during the midterms, made the claim that, while GOP ads attacked Democratic policy, ads for Democrats consisted of personal attacks against their opponents. If this was in fact true and not an ABC News attempt to be fox-lite, it was a terrible approach on the Democrats’ part - they should have run ads pummelling and pulverizing GOP policies with the truth of how damaging it would be to America if enacted)

I would like to point out that of all the campaign ads I saw, not one Republican ad mentioned their policies or achievements. 100% of the Republican ads stated ‘my opponent voted with Obama 95% of the time’ or ‘my opponent supports the Pelosi agenda’. 100%. Complete identity politics. And it works only because the US media is entirely complicit in promoting their memes. Democrat ads were about evenly split - half described the achievements of the Democrat candidate, the rest attacked the Republican for being a shill for lobbyists/big business.