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Stanley Kutler | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics


Stanley Kutler

Wisconsin's Supreme Court has adopted a rule stipulating that campaign contributions, endorsements and paid ads are not enough to force recusal. Money has invaded the judicial arena.

Fat Campaign Commercial: Corzine Campaign Takes Shot At Chris Christie's Weight In New Ad (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 09.25.2009 | New York


In the increasingly ugly campaign battle between Governor Corzine and his Republican challenger Chris Christie, it was only a matter of time before th...

Jason Linkins

"Dancing With The Czars": Dems Mock GOP, Glenn Beck Over Czar Obsession

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics


Over the past few days, I've written about the wildly outsized claims of czars in the Obama administration undermining the government. Republican Sena...

Jason Linkins

RNC Targets Seniors With New Ad (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics


The Republican National Committee has a new ad up today, featuring chairman Michael Steele waxing sentimentally about seniors and Medicare and how it ...

Jason Linkins

Health Care Industry Throws Away Money On "Pro-Reform" Ads (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics


This past weekend, the New York Times's Katharine Seelye took stock of the advertising battle that's been raging over health care reform, to the tune ...

Jason Linkins

NRSC Distorts Franken Video To Make New Senator Look Angry (VIDEO) [UPDATED]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics


[UPDATED, below.] The GOP is running this ad online, lamenting the fact that the Democrats now have the sixtieth Senate vote in the form of Al Franke...

Jason Linkins

Democratic Opponents Of Public Option Called Out In Ad

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics


So, the public option! The GOP hates it, based on some weird read of free-market philosophy that says even though it will be a terrible and inferior p...

Jason Linkins

NOM's Latest Gay-Marriage Worry: Their Right To Deny Rights Might Be Denied

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.28.2009 | Media


Hey, it's been a while since we've had one of those webvertisements from those panicky, anti-gay marriage, Cavity Creeps known as NOM, but here you go!

Jason Linkins

RNC Remixes 1964 "Daisy" Ad For Gitmo (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics


Hey kids! Am I mistaken, or did some "titular" head of the Republican National Committee recently stand in front of teevee cameras and say all this j...

Jason Linkins

National Organization For Marriage: New Ad Features "Confused" Children

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics


This seems weird to me -- after all, it's not the concept of gay marriage that's likely to confuse children, it's homosexuality itself. Seems to me that once you get your kid over that hump, the concept of marriage becomes the easy part.

Jason Linkins

Gay Snipers Attack Marriage In West Virginia Campaign Ad (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.19.2009 | Media


The moment that already has the blogosphere blowin' up comes about a minute in, when a nuclear family of dedicated, bubble-blowing West Virginians get targeted by THE GAY SNIPERS.

Jason Linkins

NRSC Attacks Reid: Campaign 2010 Adwatch (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.28.2009 | Media


Argh. These election seasons just do not ever end, not even for a second. Just when you thought it was safe to watch television again -- at least in...

Jason Linkins

Freedom's Watch, Remembered: Their Greatest Hits

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics


Ahh, Freedom's Watch. Not long ago, they were supposed to be the New New Shiny Thing in conservative advocacy groups. Funded by Sheldon Adelson, fro...

Nico Pitney and Sam Stein

Top 60 Memorable Campaign Ads Of 2008

HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney and Sam Stein | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics


It is tradition in every campaign for each side to denounce the other as having run the sleaziest race in modern political history. And certainly it s...

Sam Stein

The Dirtiest, Most Reprehensible Ads Of The Cycle (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics


It is tradition in every campaign for each side to denounce the other as having run the sleaziest race in modern political history. And certainly it s...

DNC condemns Indiana anti-gay campaign mailing

Bil Browning | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics


Bil Browning

On Tuesday I posted to Bilerico-Indiana about an anti-gay flier sent by the Indiana Democratic State Committee on behalf of State Representative candi...

The Word on the Street

James P. Hoffa | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics


James P. Hoffa

Rank-and-file teamsters get it. They aren't willing to be swayed by false, irrelevant arguments. They want change. They want ideas. And the fact is -- McCain doesn't have any.

Sam Stein

The Most Influential Voices In The Campaign

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics


Next to the candidate, the candidate's families and their surrogates, these individuals may have the most influential voices in this presidential camp...

The Essence of Obama as Described in January 2008.

Frank A. Weil | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics


Frank A. Weil

During the course of this campaign, Obama has heard advice from many sources, listened well and integrated what he heard. That is what great leaders do -- they listen, then decide and finally act.

Inter-Class Cooperation is Un-American and Socialist! McCain '08!

Dan Brown | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics


Dan Brown

Senator McCain's attempt to brand Obama as "redistributionist-in-chief" and secret socialist should be a non-starter, because so much of what America embraces is laced with the very principles of socialism.

Jason Linkins

McCain Attack Ads By Hollywood Auteurs, Round Two

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics


Last week, LandlineTV released a reel of spoofs, using the aesthetic of well-known Hollywood directors (John Woo, Wes Anderson, and Kevin Smith) as a ...

Jason Linkins

Campaign AdWatch: Reagan Reprise Deployed By Creator Against McCain

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics


In 1980, Jeff Goodby took a moment from Ronald Reagan's debate performance and turned these words into an iconic advertisement and a cultural referent...

Indiana Democratic State Committee Mails Anti-Gay Flier

Bil Browning | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics


Bil Browning

Will someone please tell Andy Schemenaur that it is not 2004 anymore? "The Sanctity of Marriage" was the Republican boogeyman during the last presidential election.

Obama Running As Many As Seven Ads For Every One Of McCain's

Washington Post | Matthew Mosk and Sarah Cohen | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics


Democratic Sen. Barack Obama reported spending $82 million on advertising during the first two weeks of October -- more than half of what Sen. John F....

Daschle for Chief of Staff?

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics


Glenn Hurowitz

Obama's got to ask himself as he considers Daschle for Chief of Staff -- does he want change and success or hypocrisy, capitulation and defeat?